vanquish

Warsh has vowed the Fed will vanquish inflation and meet its 2% goal, but Wall Street investors have grown more doubtful.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

There is a problem, though, and it comes from the unlikelihood that OpenAI or Anthropic will ever vanquish the other.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

They vanquish carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, a gas of which I am very fond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

No actor could vanquish the memory preserved for posterity in Elia Kazan’s film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

“Is this where you tell me I’m special anyway and my superpower is just being Zeke and that’ll be enough to vanquish the villain?”

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

But then I hear Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton mewl, and I’m suddenly hoping alongside Anita that someone vanquishes their foes with an unassailable vision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

For instance, in one scene in the Depardieu film, Cyrano duels and vanquishes a vicomte who insults his nose.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022

Doing so vanquishes the conflicting binocular images from both eyes, which the brain can’t overcome.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2022

The verse in Crimp’s woos and vanquishes just as seductively, though the leaner verse couples of rap battles and poetry slams.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2020

Here, and perhaps here only—certainly here in transcendence—Balzac grapples with, and vanquishes, the bare, stern, unadorned, unbaited, ironic facts of life.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Racial discrimination has by no means been vanquished from the U.S., and no decent person wants to see race relations return to what they were 70 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

But before it was vanquished, the blaze chewed through about a third of the island, one of five that comprise Channel Islands National Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Flags of every homebuilding giant flew on vanquished ground: DR Horton, Lennar.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

In this zero-sum view of the world, any perceived enemies must not merely be defeated but vanquished altogether.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Moments after vanquishing Conner, the Mighty Mary crew learned that Koch had agreed to a three-way deal with Conner and a third yacht syndicate, Young America, to slide all three teams to the final.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Whether it’s vanquishing assailants or surreptitiously surveilling enemies, daemons provide significant advantages for their masters.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

The work represents "the vanquishing of nuclear war through the historic treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States", according to the UN website.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

The driving forces of the moment are fixated less on enlightenment than on attacking, distorting and vanquishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

We’re going to be vanquishing villains left and right.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo