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eradication

[ih-rad-i-key-shuhn] / ɪˌræd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
extermination
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Not by giving away free stuff, but by rolling up our sleeves and doing the hard and expensive work of drug discovery and disease eradication.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Then in spring this year, cameras set up as part of the rat eradication programme caught two puffins coming and going from a nesting burrow on the cliff ledges.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

I do, I say, relating to the song’s sense of dread and eradication.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

"I'm really hoping for total eradication of my cancer, as opposed to being put in remission and I'm feeling optimistic."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

One was the fire ant eradication program in the South; the other was the spraying for the Japanese beetle in the Midwest.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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