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eradication

[ih-rad-i-kay-shuhn] / ɪˌræd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
extermination
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A judge tentatively rejected a request for a temporary halt to the eradication of all mule deer on Catalina Island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn has long opposed the eradication, ever since a previous plan called for sharpshooters to take aim at the deer from helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

A steering group was then formed and published a blueprint for eradication last year.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

In 2023, there were 12 documented cases of wild polio worldwide, and the disease is now on the verge of global eradication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

By the end of the summer, he declared his intention to make the eradication of poverty a key legislative objective in 1964.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

There have been successful local disease eradications, but they often came at a price.

From Nature ● Oct. 14, 2019

If eradications in general are hard, eradications on inhabited islands are really hard.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017

Campbell has been working on eradications in the Galápagos since 1997, including a 2006 campaign to remove all the feral goats and donkeys from Floreana.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017

And whereas most rat eradications so far have targeted remote, uninhabited islands, the Galapagos is home to some 30,000 people and receives around 180,000 visitors each year.

From Nature ● May 15, 2013

History proves that persecution never triumphs in its attempted eradications.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings


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