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eradication

[ih-rad-i-kay-shuhn] / ɪˌræd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
extermination
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A judge tentatively rejected a request for a temporary halt to the eradication of all mule deer on Catalina Island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn has long opposed the eradication, ever since a previous plan called for sharpshooters to take aim at the deer from helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

While people mainly associate Rathlin Island with puffins, they have returned to the Isle of Muck nature reserve in County Antrim in recent years, after a rat eradication programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

That includes the use of eradication drones, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

She saw more of me than any other student and we shared a love of germ eradication.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

There have been successful local disease eradications, but they often came at a price.

From Nature ● Oct. 14, 2019

If eradications in general are hard, eradications on inhabited islands are really hard.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017

Such eradications require almost military-scale logistics and precision, which is why Campbell has been desperately seeking an alternative to the blunt-force tools of current techniques.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017

And whereas most rat eradications so far have targeted remote, uninhabited islands, the Galapagos is home to some 30,000 people and receives around 180,000 visitors each year.

From Nature ● May 15, 2013

History proves that persecution never triumphs in its attempted eradications.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings




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