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to destroy all traces of
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Recent Examples of eradicated
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
25 June 2026
Health officials are warning that the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once thought eradicated from the US, has resurfaced and is threatening cattle, wildlife and pets.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
Then, remember, not all pests even require a pesticide, organic or not, to be eradicated.
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Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
According to an Ohio Black Bear Monitoring Report released in May, black bears were eradicated from Ohio by 1850 due to habitat loss and hunting.
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Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
In the 1960s, screwworm was eradicated from America thanks to robust foreign assistance.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2026
The sound of water, which normally underlay everyday life, had been momentarily eradicated.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
New World screwworm was never fully eradicated from the Americas, however.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
That was eradicated a decade later only with the help of sterile flies, as the US and Mexico scaled up production to as many as 500 million insects a week.
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Ilena Peng,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
Verb
Decades after a deadly virus known as GRID was said to have eradicated homosexuality, a suburban family’s pristine life unravels the day their teenage son starts to uncover the truth.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
25 June 2026
Health officials are warning that the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once thought eradicated from the US, has resurfaced and is threatening cattle, wildlife and pets.
—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
Then, remember, not all pests even require a pesticide, organic or not, to be eradicated.
—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
According to an Ohio Black Bear Monitoring Report released in May, black bears were eradicated from Ohio by 1850 due to habitat loss and hunting.
—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
In the 1960s, screwworm was eradicated from America thanks to robust foreign assistance.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2026
The sound of water, which normally underlay everyday life, had been momentarily eradicated.
—
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
New World screwworm was never fully eradicated from the Americas, however.
—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
That was eradicated a decade later only with the help of sterile flies, as the US and Mexico scaled up production to as many as 500 million insects a week.
—
Ilena Peng,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradicated
Adjective
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The plains wolf ecotype was extirpated thanks, mostly, to government eradication efforts, wildlife managers note in the report.
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The equalizing goal erased Sane’s early sting, which didn’t come without controversy.
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By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
Adjective
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According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured.
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But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word.
Verb
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In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
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Every fifty years, all debt was abolished.
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Though not as big or catastrophic as the asteroid theorized to have wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, Apophis would cause widespread destruction up to several hundred kilometers from its impact site.
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Article continues below Jen (voiced by Stephen Garlick), who is a member of another, near-extinct race called Gelflings, was raised by Mystics after Skeksis wiped out his extended family.
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The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
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In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
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Cells called osteoclasts remove old or damaged bone, while osteoblasts build new bone in its place.
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For the best results, use its gummies to help stall the process from within; apply its serum daily to repair damaged follicles; and schedule professional sessions for its Xvie XO Concentrate, a peptide- and exosome-rich treatment designed to reactivate dormant follicles.
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