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  • To add some excitement to this already exciting event, Jupiter is lording over his own sign of Sagittarius to add some puff and tinsel to the great false idols that Pluto intends to annihiliate.

    Horoscope for the week of November 25, 2007 2007

  • To add some excitement to this already exciting event, Jupiter is lording over his own sign of Sagittarius to add some puff and tinsel to the great false idols that Pluto intends to annihiliate.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • The team says that this is evidence that bands of antiprotons, analogous to the Van Allen belts, hold the antiprotons in place - at least until they encounter the normal matter of the atmosphere, when they "annihiliate" in a flash of light.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Antiprotons "annihiliate" if they come into contact with normal protons

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Definition: to utterly destroy (or annihiliate) someone in a duel using noodle foam tubes

    spudart.org 2010

  • Definition: to utterly destroy (or annihiliate) someone in a duel using noodle foam tubes

    spudart.org 2010

  • When collided together, protons at this speed annihiliate in a burst of energy and other particles; the higher the speed, the more exotic the results.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

  • When collided together, protons at this speed annihiliate in a burst of energy and other particles; the higher the speed, the more exotic the results.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

  • The word annihil had earlier in Latin been ad nihil meaning "to nothing" from which we can see why annihiliate means "bring something to nothing."

    podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2009

  • He planned to subjugate, enslave and, in the long term, annihiliate most people in eastern Europe and would have done so had he not been booted out.

    A Tangled Web 2009

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