snuffed out

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He stepped down after the 2019-20 season and was named the organization’s music director laureate but the COVID-19 pandemic snuffed out the ambitious celebrations that were to mark his triumphs .

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Home sales have limped along since rising prices and mortgage rates snuffed out the pandemic’s ultrahot seller’s market several years ago.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Along with acknowledging the changes to the report, Moore also said the city failed to adequately ensure that the Jan. 1, 2025 Lachman fire was fully snuffed out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

That left 27 to get with two wickets remaining but hope of an unlikely, morale-boosting victory for England was snuffed out by an unbroken ninth-wicket partnership between Zak Foulkes and Blair Tickner.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Why, with the tent getting fulled up with the buzzing of ten stones and the flames getting snuffed out one after the ’nother, ’twas a sight I’d’ve paid one of my own dimes to see!

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis