as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erase
Alignment means honoring difference, not erasing it.
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Several minutes later, the call was overturned, erasing a key runner.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 14 June 2025
Nail polish remover: Use a small amount of nail polish remover on a cotton ball to erase scuffs.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 7 June 2025
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Several minutes later, the call was overturned, erasing a key runner.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 14 June 2025
Nail polish remover: Use a small amount of nail polish remover on a cotton ball to erase scuffs.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 7 June 2025
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But advocates say eradicating the Iranian nuclear threat and weakening the regime is in America's national interests because Tehran is a significant destabilizing force in the Middle East, where the United States has key allies and partners, such as Israel and Qatar.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Although the red autumn fruits with yellow casings make a lovely Thanksgiving wreath, this woody vine is difficult to manage and eradicate.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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Lethal injection is the only method of execution after firing squads were abolished in 2011.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 June 2025
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Beginning in the 1950s, between 20 million and 25 million households gained ownership of plots of land through the government’s scheme to abolish the colonial-era zamindari system of tax-collecting landlords.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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To destroy the site, an attack would have to come in waves, with bombers releasing one after another down the same hole.—
Samuel Granados,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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But the conflict has only escalated, with Russia’s launching some of its most extensive strikes in a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of casualties, and Ukraine’s carrying out the audacious Operation Spiderweb drone attack, which damaged or destroyed strategic aircraft inside Russia.—
Adam Rasmi,
Time,
20 June 2025
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“Erase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erase. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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