slay
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See: Warsh says he’s determined to slay inflation.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 2, 2026
"My friend Chrissie is a champion of champions and as such she will slay this monster again," said long-time rival and friend Martina Navratilova.
From BBC β Jun. 25, 2026
There are windmills to slay, crises to fabricate, rings to kiss.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 4, 2026
He inspires their ire and gives them dragons to slay.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 21, 2026
Hear Job, sitting in dust and ashes, his children dead, his substance gone, surrounded by false comforters: ‘Yea, though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.’
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
If Evil-Lyn can stop Adam with a freeze-ray, why does she wait until he slays many of her colleagues to do so?
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 4, 2026
Powell slays a dragon, he listens to Van Halen, he quotes William Wallace, and carves a self-portrait out of a tree.
From Slate β Feb. 10, 2025
They have become renowned for their pre-game build-up, the highlight being a video show projected onto the ice in which an armour-clad knight on skates slays a fire-breathing dragon.
From BBC β Feb. 7, 2024
Colella slays her performance in one such song, the prickly “This Girl.”
From New York Times β Apr. 6, 2022
Of course this aria would be written by someone with this name, the very utterance of which slays me—the trilled rr and knife-blade-between-the-teeth ss in his name.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 14, 2025
Moderates are taking the proposal in stride, declaring victory after having slayed the sort of overhauls that Roy and others were pushing for.
From Slate β May 13, 2025
"We literally ran from the Radisson Red, there were no soundchecks and Daniel went on and just absolutely slayed the audience. He was just sensational," he said.
From BBC β May 6, 2024
Godzilla finally made it to the Oscars this year — and slayed.
From Seattle Times β Mar. 10, 2024
Girls wear their hair colored, curled, laid, and slayed.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Jailbreaks present a different kind of risk to those seen with the recent slew of high-profile AI incidents.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
That should help SpaceX test a slew of improvements to Starship and its Super Heavy booster, setting up what the company called the “next phase” of making the rocket fully reusable.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 28, 2026
Tsuda is demanding TikTok remove a slew of videos narrated by a distinctively "deep" and "lustrous" voice that the 55-year-old says can only be his.
From Barron's β Sep. 27, 2026
The increases add to a slew of recent price increases across the streaming industry.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 23, 2026
Immediately, a dad jumps in with a slew of rapid-fire questions about his son’s dietary restrictions.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Last week, the county Board of Supervisors voted to rename a section of Avenue Q in Palmdale in honor of the slain deputy.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 1, 2026
Andrew Montlake, chief executive of mortgage broker Coreco, said that the latest data showed that "the inflation dragon has not been fully slain".
From BBC β Sep. 16, 2026
“Princess Mononoke” begins with a worm-covered demon attacking a pastoral village, only to be slain by its prince, Ashitaka.
From Salon β Jul. 22, 2026
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the slain supreme leader, who took over the role after his father was killed but wasn’t at his funeral, has joined the calls for retribution.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 14, 2026
We left the farmer to ponder his slain sheep and went back to town, plodding across wet hills in the slate-gray dusk.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Bryan’s character is a big part of the movie’s appeal; he’s a scruffy, discombobulated everyman who figures out solutions on the fly, not a boringly cool and composed slaying machine.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 17, 2026
Her slaying shocked the world and put Malta, the European Union's smallest member state, in the spotlight over its apparent rule-of-law failings.
From Barron's β Sep. 2, 2026
At her morning news conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum vowed that Gastelum’s slaying would not go unpunished.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 5, 2026
County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved reinstating the reward in the decade-old slaying and increasing it by $10,000.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 11, 2026
Hunters whose courage was thus fortified were bound to be more successful when slaying these formidable beasts with their primitive weapons.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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