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Recent Examples of eradication
The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
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Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, in the 1950s, eradication efforts using sterile male flies and livestock monitoring began to push the fly population southward.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Mexico achieved eradication in 1991, but new cases from Central America caused a new outbreak last year.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Major challenges, including a shortage of staff to maintain comprehensive treatment, vulnerability in mapping in high-risk areas and poor health-seeking behavior, have allowed the disease to persist, according to a 2023 parliamentary report on the government’s eradication push.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
There seems to be no end in sight for the loss of lives, destruction of cultures and eradication of a future for coming generations.
—Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
But unlike past governments, manual eradication of coca crops under Petro’s leadership has slowed, to barely 5,048 hectares this year — far less than the 68,000 hectares uprooted in the final year of his conservative predecessor’s term and well below the government’s own goal of 30,000 hectares.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Modern prevention relies on individual action, unlike the sweeping eradication efforts of the 1940s.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Several pediatricians and public health experts told ABC News that high vaccination rates and nationwide vaccination campaigns have led to the eradication of diseases, such as polio, and a low number of cases for other diseases compared to decades ago.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, in the 1950s, eradication efforts using sterile male flies and livestock monitoring began to push the fly population southward.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Mexico achieved eradication in 1991, but new cases from Central America caused a new outbreak last year.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Major challenges, including a shortage of staff to maintain comprehensive treatment, vulnerability in mapping in high-risk areas and poor health-seeking behavior, have allowed the disease to persist, according to a 2023 parliamentary report on the government’s eradication push.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
There seems to be no end in sight for the loss of lives, destruction of cultures and eradication of a future for coming generations.
—Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
But unlike past governments, manual eradication of coca crops under Petro’s leadership has slowed, to barely 5,048 hectares this year — far less than the 68,000 hectares uprooted in the final year of his conservative predecessor’s term and well below the government’s own goal of 30,000 hectares.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Modern prevention relies on individual action, unlike the sweeping eradication efforts of the 1940s.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Several pediatricians and public health experts told ABC News that high vaccination rates and nationwide vaccination campaigns have led to the eradication of diseases, such as polio, and a low number of cases for other diseases compared to decades ago.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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That makes just staying alive in the playoffs crucial for drivers like Elliott, who are trying to stave off elimination while their teams search for answers.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Love, the last driver above the current elimination line, leads Sanchez by five points, Hill by seven, Harrison Burton (20th Saturday after starting from the rear) by eight and Smith by 14.—
Reid Spencer,
Kansas City Star,
28 Sep. 2025
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Besides extermination, these companies also may be able to assist with locating and sealing entry points or making other recommendations for exclusion.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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An extermination of the brutes in the Middle East, presided over by Obama’s successors, has been followed by a swift cancellation by Trumpian decree of the postracial age.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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The fee, which would fully pay the contractual costs tied to Johns Disposal Service, would exclude condominiums and commercial properties who already pay for private trash removal services and are not covered by the city's collection service.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who evaded removal efforts and the Trail of Tears in the 19th century, still keep the tribe’s vibrant cultural traditions and language alive in Cherokee today.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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Each side sees itself as defending the nation from annihilation, and the other side not as a rival but as an enemy.—
Marly Berlin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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For 25 to 34 year olds, 53 percent were republicans compared to 45 percent royalist and 35 to 44-year-olds were almost exactly split, with 48 percent in favor of abolition and 47 percent wanting to keep the royals.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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His childhood pastor was a guy named Henry Highland Garnet, this Black radical pastor who advocated for abolition and even made a young Frederick Douglass appear to be weak on matters of abolition and measures of equity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Wildcats hold a 10-8 edge over the Horned Frogs in their all-time series, including a 41-3 destruction of TCU in 2023 at Manhattan in the teams’ last meeting.—
Jim Barnes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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Cyrus — who married Hemsworth, 35, the following month after the destruction, before later separating in August 2019 — was left to grieve the many memories that were lost.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Position sizes, liquidation levels, trading patterns.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Fashion commentators declared that Lamar had achieved the impossible—reviving a style of pants widely believed to be lost to time and the liquidation of Wet Seal.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Murderers Bar shows us the sum of industrial achievement and the stakes of its devastation, human-made but altogether more than human.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The new season will not lack for Academy Award hopefuls – among them, All the Walls Came Down, Ondi Timoner’s documentary about the devastation of the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles and efforts to rebuild.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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