root (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for root (out)
Verb
  • Or for whatever reason, your particular brand of BV or yeast may just need a stronger or longer dose of meds to eradicate.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In places where measles have largely been eradicated, cases have been spread by travelers from other countries.
    ASSOCIATED PRESS, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • For the citrus grower Van der Merwe, finding an alternative destination for his produce if South Africa is removed from AGOA and exporting to the US becomes less profitable would not be easy.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In several respects, the survey found that Sacramento adults were less religious than Americans as a whole.
    Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The footage was erased but during an investigation the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau was able to recover it.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Sharks erased a two-goal deficit in the third period, killed off a penalty in overtime, and saw Tyler Toffoli and Fabian Zetterlund both score goals in the shootout to earn a dramatic 3-2 win over the Leafs at Scotiabank Arena.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Read Next: These Renegade Hunters Are Skiing into the Backcountry with Their Bird Dogs But the most valuable part of the class is learning to make good decisions in the mountains.
    Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That’s a pretty big revelation, and one that Mark is not happy to learn.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The feature-length doc will explore how Falco, part of the largest species of owl in the world, was discovered missing from his cage at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
  • One of their dogs, a German shepherd, was discovered dead 10 to 15 feet from Betsy, in a kennel crate in a closet.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Yet even as years’ worth of political backlash has drowned out calls to defund or abolish forces, perceptions of police shaped by tragedies like George Floyd and Uvalde aren’t so easily forgotten.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
  • But the administration's efforts to abolish federal agencies authorized by Congress are likely to meet the same fate as their attempts to stiff USAID contractors.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • However this author has compiled roundups of rules from 2024 which Congress and the administration might also survey to extract those meeting the termination criteria of E.O. 14219.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Curcumin: It's extracted from turmeric and purified to create a product containing only curcumin and very little of the other parts of turmeric.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Root (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/root%20%28out%29. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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