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polish off

verb

Definition of polish off

as in to mouth (down)

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Recent Examples of polish off The Spurs had just polished off a 136-108 romp over the Lakers, a clear-the-bench game in which Sochan logged exactly zero minutes. — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026 Eating in the car is so powerful that McDonald’s once ran a TV commercial featuring a man who couldn’t wait to get home and polished off the whole container while driving. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026 Archie had 11 points to guide McNeese to a 34-22 advantage at halftime and Johnson scored 12 after the break to polish off the victory. — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026 Peanuts, says the chimpanzee, to the suits who get to polish off the carnage, and not even a whiff of chicken feed to their masters, but serious money to a working man with mouths to feed and children of his own to keep alive. — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for polish off

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Van Gisbergen, the road-course ace with seven victories the past two seasons, finished 28th.

— Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Murphy was a diminutive, formal woman of Irish birth who never finished grade school but had a great appetite for learning.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

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The actor Marisa Abela plays her in a binary state of panic and swagger by sobbing like a dejected child or slyly grinning like one who’s about to wolf down an ice-cream cake.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Patrons grab coladas and cortaditos to kick-start their mornings, while others wolf down breakfast platters for sustenance or arrive on their lunch breaks for pan con bistec or Cuban sandwiches, maybe a burger or palomilla steak.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026

Definition of wolf

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Metal cages enclose the ends of the tube to prevent beavers from chewing or destroying them.

— Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Chunks of concrete were flung into a nesting and migration site important to some endangered species and a fire chewed through around 4 acres of Boca Chica State Park Land south of the Texas launchpad.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026

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