eliminated

past tense of eliminate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of eliminated As a result of dropping the primary discrimination claims, the court eliminated the $2 million in punitive damages and $100,000 for emotional distress. Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026 Measles cases reach record high Measles cases in the United States have surpassed last year's total and are at their highest since the disease was eliminated from the country nearly three decades ago, according to CDC data. Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Concerns were voiced by military leaders before Hegseth largely eliminated the operation. Megan Rose, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026 The disease was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but more cases have been recorded in the past year and a half than there have been in the previous 25 years combined. Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 Rivals As soon as the Braves were eliminated from the 2014 postseason chase, the team fired general manager Frank Wren. Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 After D’Amaro in April revealed layoffs affecting up to 1,000 employees, Disney in July eliminated several hundred positions, with Pixar and National Geographic among the divisions most affected by the cuts. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026 On the theatrical side, the Disney-Fox merger all but eliminated Fox from the feature business and the combined company cut its output of wide-release films in half. Mike Schur, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026 For many craft distillers, those closures eliminated one of their primary ways of selling their products. Darrielle Fair, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eliminated
Verb
  • Investigators collected handwriting samples from dozens of people, and all the individuals tested were excluded except for Patsy, whom examiners were unable to eliminate as the possible author.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026
  • But the two largest institutions — the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University — were excluded.
    David A. Lieb, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Facing fuel shortages at home, Moscow has banned gas and diesel exports through the end of January 2027.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Prestianni denied the allegation and was subsequently banned by UEFA and FIFA after admitting to using a homophobic (rather than racist) slur against the Madrid forward.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Reuters published an interview with Sinan Can Demir, a Texas computer science student who in late July prevented a rogue version of Anthropic’s Mythos model from uploading malicious code to an open-source software project on Github.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • ProPublica went further, enlisting the help of experts to determine which of those deaths could have been prevented.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • She was ordered to surrender her police identification, keys, weapon, and radio, and was prohibited from entering department property without the chief’s permission.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Cameras are allowed only to capture relevant information for the violation and are prohibited from continuous recording.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Eliminated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eliminated. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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