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annihilate

How to use annihilate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for annihilate.

Editorial note

Going forward, we're going to need to fight the "head in the sand" impulse and fucking annihilate MBA culture.

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Quick take

kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

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verb

kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for annihilate.

Example sentences

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Going forward, we're going to need to fight the "head in the sand" impulse and fucking annihilate MBA culture.

2

You mean the drive that if it were used it would annihilate your destination in a immense-burst of gamma energy?

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With a fast enough moving mirror, the mirror can change the ability of the particles to annihilate each other.

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You can imagine how a firesale of 200k bitcoins would completely annihilate BTC's market value.

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Antimatter will annihilate when it comes into contact with any normal matter; it's not a chemical reaction.

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Normally these pairs annihilate quickly, but if it happens near the event horizon it's possible for one of the particles to fall in and the other to escape.

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In the vacuum fluctuation of space, virtual photons and anti-photon pairs are created and annihilate each other all the time - but this tiny gap keeps them from appearing between the mirrors.

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Proton and anti-proton pair appears - and mirror is moving so fast, it is now present at point XYZ, between the proton and anti-proton, faster than the two could reach and annihilate each other.

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If we ignore the kinetic energy of the antiprotons, and assume there are plenty of available protons to annihilate with them, we get about 2 GeV per antiproton.

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I don't know, this line of thinking reminds me of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, where the author argues that perhaps our way of life is only special because it's aggressive, in that we annihilate or assimilate other cultures and cannot live alongside them.

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All of the below products launched, at the time, with poorer spec sheet features/price than their competitors, and then proceeded to annihilate said competitors:- MacBook/Pro- iPhone- BlackBerry- iPod- Android- WiiWhen are we as the geek community going to stop worshipping the spec sheet and realize that mainstream consumers can't give two shits about it?

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"But let me assure you, this conceptual poet was digging his nails into my hearthe knew it, and, five minutes later, I suddenly felt it toowhich led to a week and a half of fuming in bed, unable to sleep, my declaring this man my enemy, the reconceiving of a magazine article I was writing in such a way as to include a subtextual layer that would annihilate conceptual poetics, a week and a half of going out every night and talking through the insult with each of my friendswhat am I even saying?

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use annihilate in a sentence?

Going forward, we're going to need to fight the "head in the sand" impulse and fucking annihilate MBA culture.

What does annihilate mean?

kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

What part of speech is annihilate?

annihilate is commonly used as verb.