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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

And writers’ enthusiasm for em dashes is often hard-won, given that plenty of editors and readers would be happy to vanquish those ostentatious marks from the page entirely.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

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

This pattern shows that one side rarely vanquishes the other outright, especially with foreign states ready to step in.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

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

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022

“Do I have it in me?” she asks aloud with Fältskog, and in that moment, their merger vanquishes uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

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

At last, Balarama vanquishes the demon hosts, 'as a white elephant scatters lotuses.'

From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. Archer

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

Once the slave power had been vanquished, the Reconstruction Congress sought to enshrine birthright citizenship in the Constitution so it could never be stripped away again.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

The Washington freshmen paddled over to the California boat and collected the traditional trophy of victorious crews everywhere—the shirts off the backs of their vanquished rivals.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

As the play opens he is returning to Rome as a lauded hero, having led the city’s forces in vanquishing the Goths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

However, once Hernán Cortés triumphed, the conquistadors went from waging war — vanquishing the Aztecs — to the project of subjugating Indigenous holdouts and building a self-sustaining territory loyal to the crown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 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

Yet, in a world marked by scientific uncertainty, the promise of "a cure" as a magic elixir is the ultimate expression of science vanquishing the bad enemy.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023

He committed the United States to vanquishing the dictators who would deprive others of their freedom.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly