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as in elimination
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as in extermination
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Reform of individual tax rates: While the document doesn't specify changes to the current individual tax rates directly, the elimination of various deductions and credits could effectively alter the overall tax burden for individuals.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025 -
While the elimination of the tax credit would hurt most sellers of EVs, Tesla is a likely exception, Ives said.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) defended his removal of Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as House Intelligence Committee Chair as his own decision, not one ordered by President-elect Donald Trump.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
19 Jan. 2025
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The Hitchhiking Ghosts imagery that appears in the mirrors during the ride’s finale has also been updated during the removal of the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay.—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
18 Jan. 2025
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Now the doomsday weapons had been, if not abolished, at least holstered, and the passage of time could mean progress, rather than a countdown to annihilation.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2024
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That’s $3,000 every second, or $173,000 a minute, funneled into tools of annihilation.—
Michael Sheldrick,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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When Did Charles Manson Die? In 1971, the court sentenced Manson to death for the murders, but California's abolition of the death penalty in 1972 commuted his punishment to life in prison.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
19 Nov. 2024
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This week reminds us that the road to abolition does not run in a straight line.—
Brian Stull,
TIME,
27 Sep. 2024
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Along with this, the enemy's oil refining industry facilities are becoming the objects of our destruction.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Israel’s ultimate war goal is the complete destruction of Hamas.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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This scenario could be played for eerie tragedy: In the 1959 film On the Beach, Australians go about their ordinary lives while waiting for the fallout of a nuclear war to arrive and complete humanity’s erasure.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2024
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The violence is here made metaphorical, the erasure of Black women invoked through the outlines of missing faces and hands.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Sleep duration and risk of mortality from chronic kidney disease among Japanese adults.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Later on, Jackie, Phaedra, and Heavenly address the critical issue of Black maternal mortality in a moving speech.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Eradication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradication. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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