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They claim North Carolina, vanquish Collins, and spring upsets in Texas and Alaska.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

The militias emerged during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and later helped the U.S. vanquish Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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

“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

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

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022

In the end, the BSC vanquishes the BSA by, essentially, tattling on them to the town’s parents.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020

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

But in all such quests, the day of reckoning must come when the pupil challenges the master and the son vanquishes his father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2017

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

Misinterpreting his ghostly prophecy—“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him”—the usurping Scottish king believed his reign was secure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Eighty years ago, though the Arsenal of Democracy had vanquished the Axis and weathered a withering Depression, the recovering American people found themselves rich in bills but short on laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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

A mystery not long ago, San Antonio’s star from France has conquered the NBA and vanquished its defending champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The fresh wind across the big lake blew away the smoke of cooking fires and vanquished the mosquitoes that came out in whining droves and had plagued them in town.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

It neatly sums up the endgame in which we find ourselves — and his vanquishing of the preacher Eli speaks to what we worship in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

The demand for justice for a woman resonates with Durga Puja anyway, a festival built around a goddess vanquishing evil.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

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

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