as in to bomb
to defeat by a large margin
man, they totally smoked us today!
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Recent Examples of smoke
Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Fire damage was limited to three rooms, though there is smoke damage in much of the building, according to another news release the district published Saturday.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
What To Know Two NWS offices issued the dense smoke advisories on Sunday night.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Fire damage was limited to three rooms, though there is smoke damage in much of the building, according to another news release the district published Saturday.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
Grab breakfast or lunch at The Roots Restaurant, savor smoked brisket at Cryderman’s Barbecue, or sample fresh seafood and Southern specialities at Backwater.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke
Verb
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For the first time, Israel launched an airstrike in Qatar, bombing a building in Doha that houses Hamas political leadership.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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Israel has also regularly bombed the south.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From there, the snowball of negative plays picked up steam, which explains why the Dolphins finished the game with 211 yards.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Shot against the stunning backdrops of New Zealand, the campaign shows how even the smallest moments of a morning ritual — from the hiss of steam to the first swirl of crema — can embody calm and indulgence.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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So the general vindication of the method was a very big deal for the IRS because, had the Tax Court invalidated the method, basically the whole cautionary and regulatory overhaul would have been for naught.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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That will count for nought as the real business gets underway, however, as Saturday's hosts seek to claim an early scalp despite barely avoiding relegation last term.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Trails remain accessible, wildlife is still active and early snow dusts the surrounding Chugach Mountains.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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After a tough 2024 season, San Diego State is looking to dust itself off and hope after an extensive roster turnover that this season will be different.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Fair-weather waterspouts form along the base of clouds, starting on the water's surface and don't typically include high winds or thunderstorms, NOAA said.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This path is for the organization that values neutrality and wants to manage all cloud providers as interchangeable resources.—
Serge Lucio,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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At nearly 60, a life of nothingness without love—what is the point?—
Greg Norman , David Spunt,
FOXNews.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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How Wi-Fi HaLow Can Help Address These Needs To overcome connectivity gaps in large-scale environmental monitoring, some researchers and technologists are turning to Wi-Fi HaLow.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The movie adaptation is also rife with metaphors about boys becoming men and overcoming life-or-death circumstances to make it out the other side.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In front of a packed crowd of surgeons, Morton asked Abbott to breathe in the fumes of a sweet-smelling liquid, known as ether, contained inside a small glass sphere.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
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The work catalogues minor and major mass contagions, from the seventeenth-century tulip mania in the Netherlands to the California telephone illness of 1984, in which eighty employees at a telephone operator facility suddenly fell ill after a coworker claimed to smell toxic fumes.—
Christy Lange,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Smoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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