eliminate
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Washing produce can reduce your risk, but it doesn’t eliminate it as the parasites can linger in the crevices of produce like raspberries and lettuce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
At 93, the "Downtown" legend still relishes the connection between audience and performer, and the humanity in delivering a vocal -- two things AI songs might eliminate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has said the U.S. should eliminate seasonal time changes — but not by locking in daylight-saving time.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
It targets Latino and multi-ethnic areas as part of its declared mission to eliminate disparities in health care access.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
He would not be able to go any further with his Great Society policies to eliminate poverty and social injustice.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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Slaughter disrupts this design and largely eliminates its incentives for bipartisanship.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
It eliminates an expensive requirement to build manufactured housing on permanent steel frames, streamlines environmental reviews, and incentivizes cities to provide preapproved home designs, which will simplify things for governments, regulators, and builders.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
In truth, it undermines program integrity, eliminates key consumer protections, forces consumers into choices that are not to their benefit and saddles states with higher costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The deal eliminates duties on U.S. industrial goods and reduces duties on some seafood and agricultural products, per a broader trade agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Pushing the not next to the phrase it negates eliminates the scope ambiguity.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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But former employees say the cuts have eliminated decades of talent and experience, and question whether the company will be able to achieve its aim of "a bigger future".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Inside many companies, divisional leaders and department heads often decide who should be eliminated, human-resources executives say, but creating a termination list is often messy and chaotic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But under an agreement reached between Brussels and London following Britain's exit from the European Union, border controls between Gibraltar and Spain will be eliminated from July 15.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
The court’s decision eliminated the legal status for some 330,000 Haitian recipients.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Spain clinched a berth to the final Tuesday by smothering France 2-0 at AT&T Stadium, running its unbeaten streak to 37 games while eliminating a team that had run roughshod through the tournament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In June, Lucid began implementing a plan that it said would save the company $158 million by laying off 18% of its U.S. workforce and eliminating a shift at its factory in Arizona.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
By eliminating many of the costs associated with museum visits and extensive fieldwork, citizen science platforms are making large scale biological research more accessible, particularly for scientists working in the Global South.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
As the bidding war escalated, Koontz and his partners started eliminating studios that didn’t seem to be as familiar with the material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The newspapers had pointed out that the fourolds were also reflected in clothing, and now high school students had taken responsibility for eliminating such dress.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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