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Recent Examples of eradication
Recovery efforts, like a captive breeding program at the Phoenix Zoo, have helped to bolster the Mount Graham red squirrel’s population, but conservationists fear that the species may be one wildfire away from eradication in the wild.
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John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
That’s largely because, in recent centuries, waves of colonizers globally discouraged or even outlawed the teaching and learning of Indigenous languages — eradication that researchers and technologists like Boyer, as well as organizations like UNESCO, are now working to undo.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Scott says that at its peak, the half-century eradication campaign was run from a facility in Mexico that could produce at least 500 million sterile flies per week.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
Savage parasites Screwworms were once endemic to the US before a massive eradication effort that began in the 1950s drove the population out of the US and Central America.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
With mastery of warp flight, and the eradication of prejudice and war among the impossibly high bars applicants had to jump over.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
In contrast to previous coca crop eradication efforts that faced sniper attacks and landmines from other groups, the Comandos now claim to allow substitution programs to proceed.
—Bram Ebus, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
There’s a good chance part of their job description is feral hog control and/or eradication.
—M.d. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
Thirdly, the path to polio eradication is not linear and there will be debates along the way.
—Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
That’s largely because, in recent centuries, waves of colonizers globally discouraged or even outlawed the teaching and learning of Indigenous languages — eradication that researchers and technologists like Boyer, as well as organizations like UNESCO, are now working to undo.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Scott says that at its peak, the half-century eradication campaign was run from a facility in Mexico that could produce at least 500 million sterile flies per week.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
Savage parasites Screwworms were once endemic to the US before a massive eradication effort that began in the 1950s drove the population out of the US and Central America.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
With mastery of warp flight, and the eradication of prejudice and war among the impossibly high bars applicants had to jump over.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
In contrast to previous coca crop eradication efforts that faced sniper attacks and landmines from other groups, the Comandos now claim to allow substitution programs to proceed.
—Bram Ebus, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
There’s a good chance part of their job description is feral hog control and/or eradication.
—M.d. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
Thirdly, the path to polio eradication is not linear and there will be debates along the way.
—Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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His standing among the fanbase continues to ebb, with elimination from the Carabao Cup the latest setback.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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The SDGs include a call for universal access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene and the elimination of open defecation by 2030.—
Maryanne Murray Buechner,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Yet this divide-and-conquer approach, combined with the relentless attacks on civilians, has also entrenched resistance among ordinary Gazans, who now perceive Israel as undertaking a war of extermination.—
Leila Seurat,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Spurs released a statement late on Sunday night clarifying their position following days of speculation after the removal of Daniel Levy as executive chairman on Thursday.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Yet despite pushing for the changes, supervisors voted on none of them — allowing the removal to occur without a formal public input process.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Recall: a 51-7 drubbing at Michigan in ’22, a 52-0 annihilation at Texas last year, and a 50-24 blowout at home to Washington State sandwiched between those two routs.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
29 Aug. 2025
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And yet the books that Jansson wrote about the Moomins contain, sometimes explicitly and other times by way of metaphor, political themes—war, displacement, imminent annihilation, environmental catastrophe—that hardly serve as distractions from the many dangers of the world, then or now.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Mary connected her mother’s legacy to public memorialization and to contemporary activists’ fights for police reform and abolition.—
LaShawn Harris
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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But the lack of funding alternatives has fueled effective messaging campaigns about the void that abolition would leave.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Initial offerings include an all-too-timely show about young immigrants as well as several productions that, as part of the Violins of Hope project, will use stringed instruments saved from destruction during the Holocaust.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Directed by a mix of Palestinian and Israeli activists, the production chronicles the destruction of a Palestinian community in Judaea and Samaria, or the West Bank, through Israeli military activity between 2019 and 2023.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Aug. 2025
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Analysts attributed the slowdown largely to cratering property prices in province—home to property giant Country Garden, which defaulted on its debt in 2023 and faces liquidation.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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For estate equalization, liquidity through an ESOP sale can solve difficult family dynamics without liquidation of the company.—
Matthew F. Erskine,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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And that's not where the worst of the devastation lies.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in three parts in the magazine in 1962 and later as a book, alerted the country to the devastation of the pesticide DDT and is credited with launching the modern environmental movement.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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