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Recent Examples of eradication
At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
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Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
The eradication campaign required facilities that could produce 500 million sterile flies each week.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
Hunters and non-hunters alike are opposing a mule deer eradication plan on Catalina Island that was recently approved by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
—Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2026
Shattered consensus At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
—Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Illicit activities have flourished, and after years of progress toward its eradication, Myanmar has become the world’s top opium producer and a major source of synthetic drugs, the report said.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The loss of one species can tilt an environment, causing the overabundance or eradication of another, with effects rippling down the food chain.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
The Guinea worm eradication program is inching closer to completion, with a mere 10 cases of the debilitating illness reported in 2025, the Carter Center announced on Friday.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
The eradication campaign required facilities that could produce 500 million sterile flies each week.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
Hunters and non-hunters alike are opposing a mule deer eradication plan on Catalina Island that was recently approved by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
—Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2026
Shattered consensus At the time, abolitionists committed to the eradication of slavery remained a small minority, and most Northerners belonged to either the Whig or Democratic parties.
—Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Illicit activities have flourished, and after years of progress toward its eradication, Myanmar has become the world’s top opium producer and a major source of synthetic drugs, the report said.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The loss of one species can tilt an environment, causing the overabundance or eradication of another, with effects rippling down the food chain.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
The Guinea worm eradication program is inching closer to completion, with a mere 10 cases of the debilitating illness reported in 2025, the Carter Center announced on Friday.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
Noun
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Seems to us that elimination oughta mean eliminated.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Feb. 2026
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As of this writing, the outbreak is still ongoing, and America is in danger of having its measles-elimination status revoked by the World Health Organization.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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But when Mickey is cloned prematurely, resulting in multiple Mickeys, both Mickeys find themselves in danger of extermination.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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Leaders from around the world gathered in Jerusalem on Tuesday to highlight the global surge in antisemitism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked annually on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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How activists reacted to the Pride flag removal at Stonewall.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Godwin is well known in the space, having assisted law enforcement nationwide leading to the removal of hundreds of criminals from the streets.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the US and Russia, also known as START, expired last week, and with it, a long dormant fear of the threat of nuclear annihilation.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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If being an intellectual means, in part, carrying forward the legacy of those who died in pursuit of our vocation, what obligations does their systematic annihilation impose on us now?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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In 1986, during a summit meeting in Iceland, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan surprised their staffs as well as the world by pledging the abolition of all nuclear weapons.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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In the past year, their silence broken by the abolition of the police force, residents have started trading stories.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Starring Elordi and Barry Keoghan, Fennell’s dark comedy about class resentment and covetous destruction was sold on the promise of erotic excess.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
9 Feb. 2026
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Though once vital to the economy of the American territory, Puerto Rico’s sugar plantations evolved to represent the destruction and exploitation of colonialism that continues to impact the region today—a detail not lost on those cast as grass.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
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It has since been mired by legal trouble and is in the process of liquidation.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The result is that the creditor holding the lien may foreclose upon the lien, have the asset subject to the lien liquidated, and take the proceeds of that liquidation.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Palestinian American poet Noor Hindi and the Sudanese American poet Safia Elhillo described the devastation of their homelands.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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The conflict that ended in 1992 resulted in the deaths of 75,000 civilians, forced more than a million Salvadorans to flee the country and caused severe economic devastation for those who remained.—
Yamlek Mojica,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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