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Recent Examples of Synonyms for takes (away)
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The plan also eliminates the $1,000-per-seat wastewater fee for new builds and remodels.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026 -
No policy could accelerate lenacapavir’s implementation more than one that eliminates the drug’s marginal cost.—
Michael Rose,
STAT,
3 Apr. 2026
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Kawamura makes the point explicit late in the proceedings, with a hallucinatory outdoor sequence that briefly removes us from the train station altogether—easily the story’s most glaring structural and stylistic anomaly.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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This lets gravity do the work and removes dirt and cleaner cleanly.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Takes (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/takes%20%28away%29. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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