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Recent Examples of eliminate Subotic, the firm’s founder and CEO, built WestPac around the concept of unified, personalized financial services that eliminate the common fragmentation among financial advisors, tax strategists, and estate planners. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 5 June 2025 The series brought together 1,000 contestants, with a large batch being eliminated with every intense challenge. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 June 2025 Escobar’s social media comments have been flooded with viewers promising to use their first vote of the season to eliminate her from the show. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025 Read More: Dermatologists Have a Dirty Little Secret One study found that soaking apples in baking soda mixed with water for 12-15 minutes eliminated more residue than water alone. Matt Fuchs, Time, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for eliminate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eliminate
Verb
  • Digestible feminism is about getting your point across without aiming to exclude anyone.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 9 June 2025
  • The bill, introduced by Democratic Sen. Susan Rubio, was amended to exclude criminals convicted of certain offenses the chance to seek parole, including those who killed a law enforcement officer or carried out a mass shooting at a school, among other offenses.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Even after that, Microsoft refused to take full responsibility and hasn’t done enough to prevent future attacks.
    Jovante Teague, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
  • Trump's travel restrictions are already preventing some scientists from being able to travel to the U.S. for conferences.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • New technology in supersonic aircraft can allow the planes to fly faster than the speed of sound without a disruptive sonic boom being heard on the ground, but the regulations still ban those flights over land.
    JOSH FUNK, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2025
  • The Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. flights to Haiti in November of last year after gunfire struck three aircraft operated by Spirit Airlines, JetBlue and American Airlines.
    Marisa Garcia, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • Right now, federal troops are prohibited by federal law from making arrests and other law enforcement activity.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
  • The Defense Department has a doctrine that prohibits troops from participating in political activity while in uniform.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025

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“Eliminate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eliminate. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.

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