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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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Enterprises And Machine Identity Risks For enterprises, the EO’s elimination of standardized compliance frameworks is a mixed bag.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025 -
In 2023, Love Island UK came under fire after a Season 9 commercial leaked that contestants Will Young and Jessie Wynter had been dumped from the show before their elimination aired.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
6 June 2025
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The plan would aim to fund the removal of 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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There are a limited number of enforcement and removal officers — those tasked with tracking down, arresting and removing people in the country illegally — and the number of officers has remained stagnant for years.—
Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The Entity has divided people and countries to a staggering degree and Ethan is pretty much the only chance of staving off global nuclear annihilation.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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In the months since Ethan evaded capture in Austria at the end of the last movie, the Entity has expanded its power, building a fanatical cult, sparking global violence and inching toward the annihilation of humankind.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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The name originates from a sugar estate that once produced rum and sugar before the abolition of slavery and continues to support the distillery with Jamaican molasses to this day.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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But the mixed-race American actually has served an important role throughout the struggles for abolition, civil rights and political equality.—
Rebecca R. Bibbs,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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What makes that even scarier is that Florida’s road record — an .800 win percentage matched by only 17 other teams in the modern era — actually undersells the destruction.—
The Athletic NHL Staff,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Specialists in contemporary conflicts were interested in studying the building before its destruction because of its former use as military barracks, according to a May 28 news release from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
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But that project was the exception in an area where economic forces favored a mixture of erasure and neglect.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
21 May 2025
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The targeted takedown of the institute and subsequent erasure of publicly available archives on peacebuilding and human rights threatens global peace and stability.—
Angela Lederach,
Oc Register,
8 May 2025
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Black women in the United States have disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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That aspiration, that desire for light, and the ultimate recognition of our mortality.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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