Steven Stucky

One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

American Composer

Frances Wright

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

Scottish Writer

Emmanuel Macron

France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.

French Politician

Camille Perri

You know that secret novel you've been working on? The one that's really about you and your friends and your psycho ex-girlfriend? The one that, if discovered, would socially annihilate you for eternity? Yeah, go ahead and burn it.

American Author

Laurie Holden

I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.

American Actress

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

French Philosopher

Lee Haney

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

American Athlete

Sigmar Gabriel

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

German Politician

Oren Etzioni

It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.

American Businessman

Patrisse Cullors

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

American Activist

Used to emphasize the complete destruction of something, often large-scale or with intensity.

Total Destruction

Sometimes used figuratively to describe a devastating defeat or to exaggerate a situation.

Not Literal

Be cautious as 'annihilate' can sound hyperbolic or overly dramatic in everyday conversation.

Hyperbolic

Often used in sports or other competitions to underline a significantly unequal victory.

Competitive Context

It can exaggerate the extent of defeat; not always a literal score or result.

Exaggerate Defeat

In physics, 'annihilate' has a precise meaning often related to matter and antimatter.

Scientific Specific

This usage is specific to physics and may not be understood outside of scientific contexts.

Specialized Vocabulary

 pheasants and of course again while cats were destroyed along with a lot of other predatory mammals so what you then saw was what was left of the wildcats that had been annihilated were hanging on to western scotland that's where the last wild cats were left and in fact they probably would have gone extinct too were not for the first world war

Rescuing the UK's Rarest...

 while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more. And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are poised on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.

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 associated with the electron, muon, and tau. All these particles also have antimatter versions, which have the opposite charge but are otherwise identical. Matter and antimatter particles are produced in pairs in high-energy collisions, and they annihilate each other when they meet.

What’s the smallest...

 and drastically cooling the atmosphere below. The resulting volcanic winter, along with other effects such as acid rain, can effect multiple continents, disrupting natural cycles and annihilating the plant life on which other organisms, including humans, depend.

The colossal consequences...

 It would then annihilate another oppositely charged particle within the event horizon of the black hole, reducing the black hole’s mass. Meanwhile, to an outside observer, it would look like the black hole had emitted the escaped particle.

Can a black hole be...

 There's plenty of room for moral passion once we've got the facts and can figure out the best thing to do. And, as with germs, the trick is not to try to annihilate them. You will never annihilate the germs.

Dangerous memes PIPE Dan...

 of the Soviet underground. I expected their work to be dissident and political. But the radicalism in their work actually lay in reinserting humanity into a society that was annihilating humanity itself,

How the worst moments in...

 annihilating human life as we know it is more likely than AI turning evil is and ruin put it working to prevent the AI from turning evil is like disrupting the space program to prevent overpopulation

Why we shouldn’t fear...

 which has fostered individual rights. And finally, a process of rationalization of economic production and of trade liberalization. These three intertwined processes have completely annihilated

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 nightmare as a kid that everyone was just going to come and torch our house that sense of fear of being destroyed annihilated is with everybody all the time

Annihilate