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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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Enterprises And Machine Identity Risks For enterprises, the EO’s elimination of standardized compliance frameworks is a mixed bag.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025 -
In 2023, Love Island UK came under fire after a Season 9 commercial leaked that contestants Will Young and Jessie Wynter had been dumped from the show before their elimination aired.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
6 June 2025
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Advertisement The physical removal of a sitting U.S. Senator sparked immediate backlash in Washington and across the country.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
13 June 2025
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended the forcible removal of Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla from her Los Angeles press conference on Thursday.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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Here, as across the French capital, fans had piled into bars and cafes, squeezed themselves onto beer-garden benches and crowded around televisions in their sitting rooms to witness Paris Saint-Germain’s historic 5-0 annihilation of Inter in the Champions League final.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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There’s even annihilation of the cryogenically frozen elites.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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The name originates from a sugar estate that once produced rum and sugar before the abolition of slavery and continues to support the distillery with Jamaican molasses to this day.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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But the mixed-race American actually has served an important role throughout the struggles for abolition, civil rights and political equality.—
Rebecca R. Bibbs,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Confrontational rhetoric Salami was known for his aggressive rhetoric against both Israel and the United States, calling for the destruction of Israel as early as 2016.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
13 June 2025
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The destruction of several strategic bombers is another reminder that Kyiv remains determined in its struggle against Moscow’s invasion.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
13 June 2025
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Renaming the ship during Pride Month is framed as a deliberate erasure of LGBTQ+ history, coinciding with policies like the ban on transgender military service.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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Our community is seeing erasure, rollbacks of important protections and, in general, the enforcement of anti-LGBTQ legislation.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
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While the theme of mortality is threaded throughout the film, it is also balanced with hope, appreciation and more than a dab of realism.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The Life of Chuck is, as might be expected from the Master of the Macabre, a story of human mortality presented as a strange, surrealist comedy … a kind of pop-culture version of Lars Von Trier’s 2011 end-of-the-world movie Melancholia.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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