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be extinguished for

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To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

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As in, we'll all have one brief moment of glory, of celebration, of beauty and hope, burning bright like a dying sun before our lights will be extinguished for ever, as we collapse into a black hole?

The overhead fire sprinklers were immediately turned on, but the fire could not be extinguished for nearly an hour, not least because the electric motors driving the steel fire curtains had been damaged in the first kamikaze attack and could only be repaired by a dockyard.

Our observations support a model in which stem and progenitor cells require Esg to maintain their identity, whereas Esg function needs to be extinguished for the de-repression of differentiation genes in order for differentiation to proceed.

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Mr. Waterston's Lear is only a fitful flame, always on the verge of being extinguished for good.

When he announced his retirement from race-riding in 2007, what little chance Leighton Aspell stood of winning the Grand National seemed to have been extinguished for good.

There is a light, Morrissey once said, that never goes out – and here it is now, flickering on and away and still burning even as it comes dangerously close to being extinguished for good.

It, too, was extinguished for a two-minutes' silence.

Also, through choice of appropriate monomers, the dark polymerization studies were performed such that the polymerization rate was approximately the same at the point the light was extinguished for all these monomers.

It's true the light was extinguished for generations in Spain.

There are occasional flare-ups, but the flames of high-visibility persecution have largely been extinguished for the time being.

On the public announcement of her death on 8 July, the lights of every theatre in central London were extinguished for an hour.

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