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Recent Examples of eradication
Huntr/x’s path toward demon eradication gets complicated when a demon boy band comes on the scene and starts attracting a fan base of their own.
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Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Rather than continue aggressive anticrime efforts while negotiating, Petro halted most military actions against criminal groups and ceased the eradication of coca crops.
—Kevin Whitaker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
In the face of these powerful gangs and vast unpoliced areas of forest, eradication efforts and prosecutions are sporadic.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
The school once contributed to the eradication of smallpox and the development of the polio vaccine, led breakthroughs linking air pollution to lung and heart disease, and helped demonstrate the harms of trans fats.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
—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
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
Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Rather than continue aggressive anticrime efforts while negotiating, Petro halted most military actions against criminal groups and ceased the eradication of coca crops.
—Kevin Whitaker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
In the face of these powerful gangs and vast unpoliced areas of forest, eradication efforts and prosecutions are sporadic.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
The school once contributed to the eradication of smallpox and the development of the polio vaccine, led breakthroughs linking air pollution to lung and heart disease, and helped demonstrate the harms of trans fats.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
—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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
Noun
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Nothing in the documents suggested the kind of kidney or liver dysfunction that would significantly impair morphine elimination.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Support for shuttering the agency has also surged among independents, with 47 percent backing its elimination in the Saturday poll compared to 25 percent in June.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
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Leaders from around the world gathered in Jerusalem on Tuesday to highlight the global surge in antisemitism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked annually on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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The city has no snow removal equipment.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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While no service can guarantee the complete removal of your data from the internet, a data removal service is really a smart choice.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The specter of nuclear annihilation was now forever a reality, and the Cold War heightened the sense of uncertainty.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The result is a somber, unsettling experience that underscores how ordinary life gave way to annihilation across Europe.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Bessent, who is allowed by law to make the final decision on coin designs, opted to replace the abolition, suffrage and Civil Rights Movement coins with ones depicting the Mayflower Compact, the American Revolution and the Gettysburg Address.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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In a lengthy Instagram post, supermodel Bella Hadid called for the abolition of ICE, strongly criticizing their aggressive tactics.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In June 2025, EOS demonstrated the destruction of a tank using a Rodeur 330 fitted with an inert warhead, controlled via FPV.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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While navigating Westport by car or on foot is chaotic right now, the goal is to prevent destruction in the future.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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Earlier this month, the Air Line Pilots Association published an open letter to the airline’s leading creditors, urging them to support the company’s reorganization and strongly opposing its liquidation.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
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The compelling liquidation discounts on stylish furniture for every room of the home will make this a short sale in these stores.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The sheer human devastation witnessed by the half-dozen people pretending to eat their lunch in here could nullify any legitimate emotional experience within twenty city blocks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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The frigid weekend left behind a path of devastation, with New York City officials reporting eight deaths stemming from the cold temperatures that resulted in 8 to 15 inches of snow in some neighborhoods, according to FOX 8.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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