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eliminative

adjective as in tending to eliminate

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Like homemakers embracing Marie Kondo’s eliminative approach to domestic tidiness, we are supposed to strive to minimize virtual clutter.

He and others who take his eliminative materialist view of conscious experiences deny the existence of anything above and beyond associated behavioral dispositions and function.

At the other extreme are so-called eliminative materialists, who question whether anything is really conscious, including humans.

Mr. Romney wants to cut income tax rates by 20 percent while continuing to collect the same amount of revenue by eliminative tax breaks — all without raising taxes on the middle class.

It must be admitted, however, that the inflammatory process, though morbid, is generally eliminative or corrective of a disturbing cause which produced it, and, unless that cause is continued or repeated in action, a limitation belongs to the succession of stages, ending either in resolution or in adhesions, serous accumulation, suppuration, or gangrene.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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