as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erased
The equalizing goal erased Sane’s early sting, which didn’t come without controversy.
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Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 June 2026
Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
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Drew Kann,
AJC.com,
24 June 2026
Those paths got erased from the map.
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Daren Smith,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX halted their three-day slide that had erased roughly $600 billion off its market value.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Starting June 30, Sotheby’s will offer the game-winning basketball from the Knicks’ improbable Game 4 comeback against the San Antonio Spurs, in which the team erased an unprecedented 29-point deficit at MSG.
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Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
22 June 2026
The Knicks erased a 29-point deficit to eventually win the game 107-106, with a game-winning tip-in by OG Anunoby sealing the team’s victory, a basket now known as the Hand of OG in a defining moment of the series.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 June 2026
New York clinched the series with a 94-90 win in San Antonio, but most would agree the series was won in Game 4 when the Knicks somehow erased a 29-point deficit at Madison Square Garden.
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Mark Harris Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 June 2026
Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
—
Drew Kann,
AJC.com,
24 June 2026
Those paths got erased from the map.
—
Daren Smith,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX halted their three-day slide that had erased roughly $600 billion off its market value.
—
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Starting June 30, Sotheby’s will offer the game-winning basketball from the Knicks’ improbable Game 4 comeback against the San Antonio Spurs, in which the team erased an unprecedented 29-point deficit at MSG.
—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
22 June 2026
The Knicks erased a 29-point deficit to eventually win the game 107-106, with a game-winning tip-in by OG Anunoby sealing the team’s victory, a basket now known as the Hand of OG in a defining moment of the series.
—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 June 2026
New York clinched the series with a 94-90 win in San Antonio, but most would agree the series was won in Game 4 when the Knicks somehow erased a 29-point deficit at Madison Square Garden.
—
Mark Harris Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erased
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Decades after a deadly virus known as GRID was said to have eradicated homosexuality, a suburban family’s pristine life unravels the day their teenage son starts to uncover the truth.
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Health officials are warning that the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once thought eradicated from the US, has resurfaced and is threatening cattle, wildlife and pets.
Verb
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In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
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Every fifty years, all debt was abolished.
Verb
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The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
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In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
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“Erased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erased. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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