as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erase
The mission is to sustain the memory of those 10 kindergarten classmates and the 1.5 million other Jewish children whose lives the Holocaust erased.
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Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Despite giving his tenderest and most nuanced performance, Carrey was again ignored by the Academy for his work as the lovelorn Joel, who undergoes an experimental procedure to erase memories of his former flame Clementine (Winslet, who did receive a nomination).
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
There are no goal flurries to erase those mistakes.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2025
The odds are that the response will sit in an internal digital memory buffer for a while and not be immediately erased or discarded.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Despite giving his tenderest and most nuanced performance, Carrey was again ignored by the Academy for his work as the lovelorn Joel, who undergoes an experimental procedure to erase memories of his former flame Clementine (Winslet, who did receive a nomination).
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
There are no goal flurries to erase those mistakes.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2025
The odds are that the response will sit in an internal digital memory buffer for a while and not be immediately erased or discarded.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erase
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The theory holds that a community that rids itself of petty crime, such as shoplifting, vandalism and trespassing, can eradicate more serious crime because criminals won’t have anywhere to hide.—
JULIE K. BROWN,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Its achievements include eradicating smallpox and bringing polio to the brink of elimination.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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About a quarter century after slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico (1873), another Afro-Puerto Rican genre emerged known as the plena.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jan. 2025
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Trump said in December that the debt ceiling should be abolished, a position shared by some liberal lawmakers.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Palestinians who have been sheltering in squalid tent camps and schools-turned-shelters for over a year are eager to return to their homes — even though they have likely been damaged or destroyed.—
Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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The wildfires that burned through much of Los Angeles County earlier this month wreaked havoc across the region, burning down entire neighborhoods and destroying more than 17,000 structures, many of which were homes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Erase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erase. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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