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• v  come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• It's not that the Pentagon believes it can vanquish a near-invisible guerrilla army from the skies — the first rule in the guerrilla manual is avoid concentrating your forces and offering a target to your enemy's air power.
• Their films show their heroes blending with robot suits and race cars in order to vanquish the bad guys.
• Only the fierce, benevolent lion Aslan (with a little help from the children) can vanquish the tyrant and bring summer back to Narnia and the talking animals who live there.

• beat
• beat out
• crush
• shell
• trounce

News & Articles

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• Slide Show: Aston’s Vanquish Volante revealed
  Aston Martin unveils the Vanquish Volante, a new luxury sports car bringing open-top motoring to the super GT class.
  June 22, 2013 - Market Watch
• 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: This Is It
  You like the Aston Martin Vanquish, but you hate having a roof over your head. You're in luck. Aston has a solution for you. Meet the Vanquish Volante. So what do you get for your hard earned monies? Under the hood it's all Vanquish Coupe, which means 565 horsepower V12 attached to a six speed automatic running power out to the rear wheels. On the outside, you have that same Vanquish look. But ...
  June 19, 2013 - Jalopnik
• Aston Martin Vanquish Volante revealed: Latest Aston Martin convertible gets full carbon-fiber skin
  Aston Martin has unveiled the Vanquish Volante -- a new luxury sports car bringing open-top motoring to the super GT class.
  June 19, 2013 - AutoWeek

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in Sin Chew Jit Poh
  The fall of the Berlin Wall is an appeal, an appeal to all to vanquish oppression, to knock down the walls that throughout the world still divide towns, territories, peoples,said French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
• Shinji Mikami in Punch Jump (blog)
  Vanquish is a game where we've tried to inject the extreme pace of an action game into a shooter,said Shinji Mikami, Game Director of Vanquish. "The gameplay and staging are all put together around the keyword 'intensity'. I think it's...