vanquish
Example Sentences
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What follows focuses on Martin and Lora’s daughter Josie, who forges a successful life—she goes to Harvard and starts a family—but can never vanquish her longing for her father’s return.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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
Instead, still a couple of weeks out from his 18th birthday, Littler calmly made his way through the rounds and then put in a display as mature as it was astonishing to vanquish Van Gerwen.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025
Unfortunately for us, we could not vanquish him sufficiently to prevent his return.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2024
That woman had a devious mind that was only predictable when she scented an opportunity to vanquish her husband.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing vanquish
Grade 10, List 1
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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