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Recent Examples of eradication
The school once contributed to the eradication of smallpox and the development of the polio vaccine, led breakthroughs linking air pollution to lung and heart disease, and helped demonstrate the harms of trans fats.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, in the 1950s, eradication efforts using sterile male flies and livestock monitoring began to push the fly population southward.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Mexico achieved eradication in 1991, but new cases from Central America caused a new outbreak last year.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Major challenges, including a shortage of staff to maintain comprehensive treatment, vulnerability in mapping in high-risk areas and poor health-seeking behavior, have allowed the disease to persist, according to a 2023 parliamentary report on the government’s eradication push.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
There seems to be no end in sight for the loss of lives, destruction of cultures and eradication of a future for coming generations.
—Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
But unlike past governments, manual eradication of coca crops under Petro’s leadership has slowed, to barely 5,048 hectares this year — far less than the 68,000 hectares uprooted in the final year of his conservative predecessor’s term and well below the government’s own goal of 30,000 hectares.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Modern prevention relies on individual action, unlike the sweeping eradication efforts of the 1940s.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
However, in the 1950s, eradication efforts using sterile male flies and livestock monitoring began to push the fly population southward.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Mexico achieved eradication in 1991, but new cases from Central America caused a new outbreak last year.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Major challenges, including a shortage of staff to maintain comprehensive treatment, vulnerability in mapping in high-risk areas and poor health-seeking behavior, have allowed the disease to persist, according to a 2023 parliamentary report on the government’s eradication push.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
There seems to be no end in sight for the loss of lives, destruction of cultures and eradication of a future for coming generations.
—Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
But unlike past governments, manual eradication of coca crops under Petro’s leadership has slowed, to barely 5,048 hectares this year — far less than the 68,000 hectares uprooted in the final year of his conservative predecessor’s term and well below the government’s own goal of 30,000 hectares.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Modern prevention relies on individual action, unlike the sweeping eradication efforts of the 1940s.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradication
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If passed by the legislature and approved by a majority of voters, the elimination of non-school property taxes would come into force as of January 1, 2027.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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But Canada is now poised to lose its elimination status, and the US could soon too.—
Sarah Hutter,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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The study continued until deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp, where many of the researchers would ultimately perish, began, in 1942.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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Besides extermination, these companies also may be able to assist with locating and sealing entry points or making other recommendations for exclusion.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Blain was charged in San Diego Superior Court with four felony counts of perjury, asking for a bribe by a member of a legislative body, soliciting a bribe and destruction or removal of public records, along with misdemeanor petty theft.—
Susan Gill Vardon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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One way to assess possible malignancy is irregularity of a growth, speed of growth, localized lymph node metastasis as evidenced by enlargement of the nodes, and more but there is no substitute for an FNA or removal and biopsy.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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But the threat of annihilation has done nothing to slow them in their teenage rituals.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Whether the situation escalates into global annihilation or cools into a détente is left ambiguous.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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And an even larger proportion of the same segment of American society, even those willing to contemplate the abolition of slavery, could not imagine a post-emancipation America of racial equality as anything but a nightmare.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The latest series of bills seems to take these concerns into account, while pushing further away the possibility of a complete abolition of property taxes in the state.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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The viral photos and videos of the destruction have elicited strong emotions for many Americans.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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As time passes, pressure increases, communication falters, and every decision carries the weight of potential destruction.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Oct. 2025
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Chaparro also noted that bitcoin and ether suffered less losses compared to alternative crypto-assets in this month’s massive liquidation event.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Also in liquidation mode is fashion rental platform CaaStle, which filed its Chapter 7 petition in June.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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What remains is devastation at an almost unimaginable scale.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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The devastation was so severe that rebuilding and recovery seemed years away.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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