as in to exclude
to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of
the stiff entry fee is intended to eliminate less-than-serious competitors
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Recent Examples of eliminate
Everything else is either eliminated or reduced to very few words.
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Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
There were also proposals to completely eliminate the low-income-housing-tax credit [which funds the construction and renovation of affordable rental housing].
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2024
Or the administration could simply eliminate oversight of these programs, opening them up to more errors or problems that could result in borrowers not getting the relief that they would be entitled to.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
A week after Nader and Savchenko were eliminated from the competition, a source told PEOPLE that the couple broke things off.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
There were also proposals to completely eliminate the low-income-housing-tax credit [which funds the construction and renovation of affordable rental housing].
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2024
Or the administration could simply eliminate oversight of these programs, opening them up to more errors or problems that could result in borrowers not getting the relief that they would be entitled to.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
A week after Nader and Savchenko were eliminated from the competition, a source told PEOPLE that the couple broke things off.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The committee standards also excluded studies that were not clear on how foods were considered ultraprocessed — a common occurrence due to ongoing controversy among nutritionists as to how to define ultraprocessed foods.Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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For a married couple, if both spouses are age 70½ or over when the distributions are made and both have IRAs, each spouse can exclude up to $105,000 for a total of up to $210,000 per year.James Brewer, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Once Trump withdraws America’s aegis over these allies, what is to prevent old hostilities from resurfacing, from enmities between Germany and France or Germany and Poland to lingering resentments between the Japanese and Koreans?Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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In the current proposal for land possession there, private land prevents the Crow from visiting many of these sites without permission from the landowner.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Approximately 15 editions were in circulation before the Catholic Church banned the text by listing it on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559.Amarachi Orie, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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This false narrative has made a lot of tribal funding in North America contingent on sobriety; alcohol was banned on U.S. reservations until the 1950s.Sofia Perez, Saveur, 21 Nov. 2024
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Its 4,400 employees are responsible for distribution of federal financial aid for education, collecting and disseminating data and research related to schools, and prohibiting discrimination in schools.Graham Kates, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024
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The restrictive language in the Open Agreement, which prohibited certain antitrust claims, was seen as reinforcing this disparity.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Eliminate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eliminate. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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