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Recent Examples of eradication
While the eradication of our species might sound like a bleak ending note, Lanthimos tells EW that audiences are divided on whether the film presents a hopeful or pessimistic view of the future.
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Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 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
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
Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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There’s potential for Missouri and Oklahoma to be a game between SEC teams with two losses and therefore a de facto elimination game.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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From there, the competition follows a single-elimination format through the Round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, third-place match, and final.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
3 Nov. 2025
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In Danis Tanovic’s underseen drama, Farrell plays an Irish war photographer who gets separated from his best friend and colleague in Iraqi Kurdistan in the prelude to Saddam Hussein’s 1988 extermination campaign against the Kurds.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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In New Zealand, a nationwide extermination campaign is underway.—
NPR,
NPR,
26 Oct. 2025
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Since attacks like SessionReaper can expose your personal data to criminal marketplaces, consider using a reputable data removal service that continuously scans and deletes your private information, such as your address, phone number and email, from data broker sites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Sky Roberts, the brother of the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser, cried when reflecting on how his sister would have reacted to the removal of the former prince's title and honors.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Such deterrence from total annihilation only works when countries act predictably.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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But the threat of annihilation has done nothing to slow them in their teenage rituals.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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In fact, polls show a supermajority of Ohioans support the outright abolition of all property taxes.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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And an even larger proportion of the same segment of American society, even those willing to contemplate the abolition of slavery, could not imagine a post-emancipation America of racial equality as anything but a nightmare.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps, curled inside the turbulent virginal atmosphere, Helm dreams of being a storm, has a prophetic vision of destruction, feels a natural calling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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What divides him from Burton is that Hopkins, by a miracle, summoned the clarity to renounce his own destruction.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Chaparro also noted that bitcoin and ether suffered less losses compared to alternative crypto-assets in this month’s massive liquidation event.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Also in liquidation mode is fashion rental platform CaaStle, which filed its Chapter 7 petition in June.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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The devastation that Melissa left behind has left 25,000 people still in shelters in Jamaica on Wednesday, according to Sky News.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Jamaica is waking up to devastation, with severe damage to infrastructure including the electric grid, hospitals and schools.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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