As every schoolboy knows, if you bring a particle and an antiparticle together, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

ECONOMIST: Particle physics

Since, as every schoolboy knows, when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy, the equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other long ago and the universe should now be filled with energy and little else, which is evidently not the case.

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"In his maniacal quest to annihilate the studio owners, he realised that the most effective retaliation was to destroy their talent, " wrote Willie Wilkerson of his father.

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"When I get Cleverly in the ring I'm going to annihilate him, " said the 27-year-old Bellew, known as 'Bomber'.

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WIMPs met (which should happen quite frequently in the centre of the earth) they would annihilate one another.

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But none has hung around long enough to be examined in detail because, famously, antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

The Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, says rising sea levels could annihilate his country "as effectively as an atomic bomb".

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And boy, that APQ8064 really doesn't disappoint, but it should be no surprise -- we've already seen how the top dual core S4 chipsets already beat their quad core competitors in certain aspects, so it's only natural for the quad core S4 Pro to annihilate them.

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