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Recent Examples of eradication
At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
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Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
The eradication campaign required facilities that could produce 500 million sterile flies each week.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
Hunters and non-hunters alike are opposing a mule deer eradication plan on Catalina Island that was recently approved by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
—Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2026
Shattered consensus At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
—Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Illicit activities have flourished, and after years of progress toward its eradication, Myanmar has become the world’s top opium producer and a major source of synthetic drugs, the report said.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The loss of one species can tilt an environment, causing the overabundance or eradication of another, with effects rippling down the food chain.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
The Guinea worm eradication program is inching closer to completion, with a mere 10 cases of the debilitating illness reported in 2025, the Carter Center announced on Friday.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
The eradication campaign required facilities that could produce 500 million sterile flies each week.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
Hunters and non-hunters alike are opposing a mule deer eradication plan on Catalina Island that was recently approved by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
—Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2026
Shattered consensus At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
—Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Illicit activities have flourished, and after years of progress toward its eradication, Myanmar has become the world’s top opium producer and a major source of synthetic drugs, the report said.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The loss of one species can tilt an environment, causing the overabundance or eradication of another, with effects rippling down the food chain.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
The Guinea worm eradication program is inching closer to completion, with a mere 10 cases of the debilitating illness reported in 2025, the Carter Center announced on Friday.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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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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After calls for its removal -- including by Republicans -- the White House said a staffer had posted the video erroneously.—
BILL BARROW,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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For people that are not tracking what that actually means, that means that ICE can do almost no arrests in the entire country … If a court rules that there’s a final order of removal, they’re removed actually by an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The cross-section, remember, determines both production and annihilation efficiencies at earlier times.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Cosmic ray detectors hunt rare antideuterons as dark matter annihilation signatures—but galactic cosmic rays smashing into interstellar gas also produce them, creating background noise.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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As philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, authoritarianism does not require the abolition of institutions, only the erosion of their animating principles.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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But in overwhelming numbers today, people across the country will take to the streets and demand the abolition of this instrument of terror.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
30 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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It has since been mired by legal trouble and is in the process of liquidation.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The result is that the creditor holding the lien may foreclose upon the lien, have the asset subject to the lien liquidated, and take the proceeds of that liquidation.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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After the devastation of World War II, Europe was not searching for novelty.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2026
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Nearly six years after Iger’s seismic move – which stunned the media and business worlds and came just prior to the devastation of Covid and when the exec was well shy of his 70th birthday – his motivations to leave remain largely a mystery.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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