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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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In March 2024, Hard Rock and Gary Mayor Eddie Melton also announced a $3 million donation to help revitalize downtown Gary, which was directly put towards blight elimination in the Metro Transit Development District in the Broadway corridor.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025 -
After the team's elimination in Game 7 on Sunday, a handful of Nuggets players, including Jamal Murray, advocated for the team to keep Adelman.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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The plan would aim to fund the removal of 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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There are a limited number of enforcement and removal officers — those tasked with tracking down, arresting and removing people in the country illegally — and the number of officers has remained stagnant for years.—
Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The Entity has divided people and countries to a staggering degree and Ethan is pretty much the only chance of staving off global nuclear annihilation.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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In the months since Ethan evaded capture in Austria at the end of the last movie, the Entity has expanded its power, building a fanatical cult, sparking global violence and inching toward the annihilation of humankind.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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While the mercurial Greeley and other radicals veered between strident demands for abolition, protests of the crackdown on civil liberties, and panicked calls for peace talks, Raymond stayed the course (or, at least, kept his wobbles private).—
Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 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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What makes that even scarier is that Florida’s road record — an .800 win percentage matched by only 17 other teams in the modern era — actually undersells the destruction.—
The Athletic NHL Staff,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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The book also examines the growing movement to grant legal rights to rivers as a way to prevent their destruction by corporations and governments, which are themselves protected by a vast array of legal rights.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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But that project was the exception in an area where economic forces favored a mixture of erasure and neglect.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
21 May 2025
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For those of us who’ve already lived through that kind of erasure, this moment cuts even deeper.—
Beatrice Weber,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2025
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Black women in the United States have disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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That aspiration, that desire for light, and the ultimate recognition of our mortality.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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