vanquished
Example Sentences
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The diet culture of the ’90s was never totally vanquished, and Ozempic has complicated narratives about body size, health, and self-love, to put it mildly.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 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
They appear thin, weak and vanquished, like the "caliphate" they proclaimed in 2014.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
The Dodgers had just vanquished the Milwaukee Brewers, a team that did everything right, with four starting pitchers whose contracts total $1.35 billion.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
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
