ridding

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"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

In fall 2024, many of us were ridding our kitchens of a very common utensil, thanks to a piece in the Atlantic that instructed us to, “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.”

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

The hardest part, consultants say, is ridding parents of the notion they must get their kid into a “name-brand” school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Though their performance space, the Lutheran church in Pacific Palisades, was still intact, months of cleaning soot and ridding the smell of smoke lay ahead.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2025

Hence the virus was intentionally introduced to Australia in 1950 in the hopes of ridding the continent of its plague of European rabbits, foolishly introduced in the nineteenth century.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond