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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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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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Here, as across the French capital, fans had piled into bars and cafes, squeezed themselves onto beer-garden benches and crowded around televisions in their sitting rooms to witness Paris Saint-Germain’s historic 5-0 annihilation of Inter in the Champions League final.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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There’s even annihilation of the cryogenically frozen elites.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 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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The book also examines the growing movement to grant legal rights to rivers as a way to prevent their destruction by corporations and governments, which are themselves protected by a vast array of legal rights.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
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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For those of us who’ve already lived through that kind of erasure, this moment cuts even deeper.—
Beatrice Weber,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2025
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While the theme of mortality is threaded throughout the film, it is also balanced with hope, appreciation and more than a dab of realism.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The Life of Chuck is, as might be expected from the Master of the Macabre, a story of human mortality presented as a strange, surrealist comedy … a kind of pop-culture version of Lars Von Trier’s 2011 end-of-the-world movie Melancholia.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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