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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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Noun
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The Vegas Golden Knights find themselves on the cusp of elimination, trailing 3-1 in the NHL's Western Conference Semifinals to the Edmonton Oilers, who won both Game 1 and Game 2 on Vegas' home ice.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025 -
The series shifts back to Washington for Game 5 on Thursday, with the Eastern Conference’s top seed working to stave off elimination and the Hurricanes aiming for a second trip to the conference final in three seasons.—
Aaron Beard,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2025
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Their impact has been so severe that Florida classifies them a public nuisance and encourages humane removal efforts.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
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Trump wants to deport 1 million people annually, a dramatic increase requiring a vast, sophisticated and expensive targeting, detention and removal operation.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Yet Daniela sees not annihilation in her mother’s last days but something profoundly human—beyond memory as people typically understand it.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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Since President Trump took office in January, Head Start centers have been unnerved by an escalating series of threats, including, most recently, total annihilation.—
Jenny Gold,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Following the faith’s core beliefs in nonviolence and justice, Quakers have demonstrated for the abolition of slavery, in favor of the suffrage movement, against both World Wars, and the U.S. roles in the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, said Ross Brubeck, 38, one of the Quaker march organizers.—
Luis Andres Henao,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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Last month, Musk took to his social media platform X to seemingly express support for the abolition of intellectual property laws.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
10 May 2025
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Despite trillions of dollars at stake, forest destruction—and the corporate role in driving it—is still widely treated as a peripheral issue.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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That's because full destruction of the Iranian program is impossible at this point.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The process of erasure is driven by the biofeedback data produced by a living palm oil tree that took center stage in the installation, its condition determining the volume of water and the speed and direction of the brush.—
Naima Morelli,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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His existential works explore themes of cultural erasure, myth, and grief.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2025
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Early improvement in life expectancy came from reducing childhood mortality.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Yet a shattering tragedy at around the film’s mid-point upsets that trajectory entirely, as their convoy of cars become stationary, and confrontations with mortality must be sought.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
16 May 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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