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
His comments came as the Welsh government announced the extension of two projects aiming to eradicate bovine TB.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Network Rail said the new system "eradicates the failure mechanisms of the past by providing complete separation of bimetallic elements and using a copper contact wire which improves current collection" from overhead wires by trains.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
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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A flesh-eating parasitic fly is once again threatening the nation’s livestock, after being eradicated from the U.S. six decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
The NWS fly was thought to be eradicated in the United States in 1966.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
A hundred times he had confronted black widows, and—BLAM!—always, unthinkingly, he had smashed them with his hand the way most men and women in Milagro eradicated the pests.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Completely eradicating the paper check, however, would be a steep psychological hill to climb.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
This summer's World Cup will see a high number of law changes, primarily around eradicating tactics to slow the tempo of play and waste time.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
“The task of eradicating the soil and conditions that breed corruption is still arduous.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
WHO has played a role in eradicating smallpox and tackling public health threats like polio, HIV, Ebola and tuberculosis.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Virtually every southern state was infested with Aedes aegypti, these experts pointed out, but funds would run out before the job of eradicating the mosquitoes was half completed.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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