eradicate
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At the same time, UC San Diego researchers are developing next-generation genetic technologies that could strengthen future efforts to control or eradicate screwworm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The goal was to reduce the impacts on residents, not totally eradicate the cicadas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
There aren’t many of those critters in the Golden State and, when they’re found, officials seek to eradicate them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Quiñonez, 30, has been campaigning to eradicate the practice in Colombia - where it is still practised by members of her Emberá Indigenous community.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He is silent for so long, in fact, that I think he is going to eradicate me where I stand, with lightning vision or something terrifyingly cool.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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While it’s not clear exactly how this happens, experts said that one explanation may be that exercise helps fight cancer by enhancing how the immune system targets and eradicates cancer cells.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
The immune system then recognizes and eradicates those spike proteins, thus learning how to defend against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022
Johnson added, “It helps the drought but by no means eradicates the drought.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
This “Dune” almost completely eradicates the arid, meandering vision and miscues of David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear,” says Four.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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The toxins bred in his mind by the brutalities of war cannot be eradicated, even if he can describe his sufferings with such deceptively majestic language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It’s also because after being eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, the flesh-eating screwworm is back: A few cases have emerged in Texas.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Still, the resurgence of the parasite, which was eradicated in the U.S. in the 1960s, comes at a time when the cattle industry is already facing drought, tariff battles and other challenges.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
In the US, the parasite was considered eradicated in 1966 but there have been cases since, including an outbreak in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
What a child has heard in his first six years of life cannot be eradicated later.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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His hopes of eradicating it by 2020 were dashed, although numbers are still down significantly on what they were 10 years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Completely eradicating the paper check, however, would be a steep psychological hill to climb.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Thi Thanh Huong Tran and others suggest, however, that authorities have slim chance of eradicating Vietnam's counterfeit market.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Chemotherapy is much more effective at eradicating minimal disease than it is macroscopic disease that you can already see on imaging.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Television had shrunk the world, and had in the process become a great weapon for eradicating ignorance and promoting democracy.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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