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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In August, the Taliban published vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public in an effort to completely erase Afghan women and girls from public life.
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Brian Cheng, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
But the parent complained that only later did the consumer discover that Epic Games did not erase the credit card information.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
The Korean won erased some of its losses from Tuesday, with the U.S. dollar standing at around 1,410.31 won during early trades.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Brian Cheng, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
But the parent complained that only later did the consumer discover that Epic Games did not erase the credit card information.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
The Korean won erased some of its losses from Tuesday, with the U.S. dollar standing at around 1,410.31 won during early trades.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Individual errors cannot be eradicated entirely, but must be reduced.Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980, but stocks of the virus still exist in U.S. and Russian biocontainment facilities.Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Some critics want to abolish the agency altogether.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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India proposed in July to abolish its 2 percent equalization levy.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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He is then seen waving the baton, destroying property and throwing items at police, according to his criminal complaint.Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
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Al Shahabi also asked on Facebook where the recordings of surveillance cameras at regime security branches had gone, why some documents had been destroyed and why human rights groups had not done more to protect records.Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Erase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erase. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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