did away with
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Last year, the company did away with the prizes for roughly five months, which the analyst said contributed to softer sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Swinney did away with the post when he became first minister, but kept Hepburn on in a relatively important job – that of parliamentary business minister.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
To avoid discouraging students, some school districts did away with D and F grades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Those campuses combined also did away with more than 600 programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion training.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
