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Asked on S4C's Y Byd yn ei Le if he would be happy to get rid of the Wales Office, Drakeford said: "Yes, I think the time has come for us to think about that."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“And I think that’s the realization: There’s a lot of joy in getting rid of what is unnecessary and is not pertinent anymore.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Maybe I’m too much of an optimist, but I hopefully believe that people will see the consequences of AI and not necessarily get rid of it, but work toward making it better,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
“In the end I got rid of my device and bought a dumbphone instead. It’s made me somewhat annoying as a friend and a boyfriend but I am able to read again.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Just because you’ve made a thought be quiet, though, doesn’t mean you’ve gotten rid of it.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
You will appreciate the richer flavor and be happy to have finally ridded yourself of those unattractive scrambled-egg bits of white that invariably dot your final product when whole eggs are used in your recipe.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
"My wife and I both had a really ridded our house as much as possible of single-use plastic," he says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2018
In my youth it was the best part of the year down south because the great breaks could be ridded early and late in the day with few others around.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least he had ridded himself of that.
From The Survivor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Yaroslavsky credits Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program for ridding her district of big homeless encampments, but said more data is needed to ensure the programs are cost-effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
The third holds that we’ve come a long way in ridding ourselves of racism—particularly of the institutional kind—but stops short of declaring the bogeyman dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
Veins stand out in Zak’s neck, and he shakes his head like a wet dog ridding itself of water.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
