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as in to eat
to consume or wear away gradually
the fear that inflation will continue to erode people's savings
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as in to wear
to damage or diminish by continued friction
the winds and desert sands have eroded much of the original surface of these ancient monuments
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Recent Examples of erode
Amid the growing lack of faith in government institutions, Sanders said, major cuts to research or to weather or disaster agencies could further erode trust.
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Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
It’s also been a wildly good run for homeowners, as property values have soared and inflation has eroded the nominal value of their monthly mortgage payment.
Harris wants to upgrade America’s economy.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
False information about when and where to vote can confuse people and rob them of their vote as well as generally erode confidence in elections and democracy.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political left and the Jews—as support for centrist political parties eroded.
—Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
It’s also been a wildly good run for homeowners, as property values have soared and inflation has eroded the nominal value of their monthly mortgage payment.
Harris wants to upgrade America’s economy.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
False information about when and where to vote can confuse people and rob them of their vote as well as generally erode confidence in elections and democracy.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political left and the Jews—as support for centrist political parties eroded.
—Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Miami was last in the NFL at 57 plays per game last season partly because the offense didn’t convert effectively on third downs, but also because the porous run defense allowed opponents to eat up the clock.Chris Perkins, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 July 2017
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The casual restaurant and bar also offers an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet at 8 a.m. Sundays.Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 19 July 2017
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My eleven-year-old daughter wore a blue parka year-round.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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The men are wearing shorts, T-shirts, and flip-flops—no respirators or other safety gear in sight.Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Homes, roads and community spaces in the path of Helene have been destroyed.Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The protagonist Skif goes to Chernobyl on a mission to imbue the artifact left by the anomaly that destroyed his home with residual energy that radiates throughout the Zone.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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But their partnership begins to fray when a divine spirit informs Sister Deborah that a Black woman, not a Black Jesus, will save them.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Negotiations were fraying between the state and the powerful hospital industry over the plan to make hospitals relieve patient debt or lose billions of dollars of public funding tied to the state’s Medicaid expansion.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Inside were some trinkets: two china bowls, beads and buttons, the compressed remains of what might have been leather hats, and two heavily corroded, but recognizably silver, watches.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The oil from the materials named in a book Suharto banned now corroded the pages of his biography, as if his very tools of oil extraction had turned against his symbolic image.Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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While noting that many Arizona cities have drastically reduced their per capita water demand, Goddard argued that cities will eventually need to find water-sharing arrangements with farms so that cities can pay farmers to use their water in dry times.Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Some items that normally retail for upwards of $500 have been reduced to $99 or less.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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The superfluid still rubs against the bucket, but the material is totally impervious to friction until the container reaches a certain rotational speed.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The color also faded a little after rubbing the sheets with sandpaper.Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
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And what a loss that would be, erasing the splashes of yellow and orange every fall and silencing the quaking of the leaves.Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
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Compared to its March peak of $123, the price has plunged over 85%, erasing over $55 billion in value.Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Erode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erode. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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