rid
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Getting rid of aged inventory made room for fresher designs, such as sandals, and helped the company sell more items at full price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The work also focused on getting rid of "thermal bridges" - which are parts of the home where heat is exchanged rapidly, such as where the insulation is broken up between rafters in your home.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
There are measures related to getting rid of the income cap that could help get the program closer to solvency, however.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
It would be “a generational project, but that’s okay. It took a generation or two to get rid of them; it can take the same to bring them back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“It’s the haints,” I say, hoping that’ll get rid of the goose bumps.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
You will appreciate the richer flavor and be happy to have finally ridded yourself of those unattractive scrambled-egg bits of white that invariably dot your final product when whole eggs are used in your recipe.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
"My wife and I both had a really ridded our house as much as possible of single-use plastic," he says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2018
In my youth it was the best part of the year down south because the great breaks could be ridded early and late in the day with few others around.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin, If Hell be pleased when sinners enter in, If earth be pleased when ridded of a knave, Then all are pleased for Coleman's in his grave.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
It was Mr. Landsbergis, who as parliament chairman in March 1990, led Lithuania to declare it was ridding itself of the U.S.S.R.—the first of the 15 Soviet republics to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
Some adherents advise parents that the disturbing effects indicate that the treatment is working, ridding the body of impurities, or that the parents should alter the dosage.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
That would require ridding her of her present lord and master, to be sure... not to mention the uncle who had married her to him.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
