eliminate
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"Nevertheless, the court declines the invitation to impose the death penalty on any of the victims," she said, adding that capital punishment would eliminate any prospect of rehabilitation and disengagement.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
They eliminate chopping, cut down on dishes and make the first few minutes of cooking almost frictionless.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
At the extreme, there is even buzz that the Treasury moves to eliminate 20-year bond auctions entirely, Stanley said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
He appears to have energized Black voters furious over a Supreme Court decision that could let Republicans eliminate Mississippi’s only majority-Black congressional district while also winning over about a quarter of the white electorate.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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His “Awesome Portfolio” only needs to be rebalanced once a year and “that cuts your volatility in half and eliminates your drawdowns,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Odin’s on-demand manufacturing eliminates much of the risk that comes with storing bulk quantities of flammable substances, executives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, signed in 2016, eliminates import duties on 98 percent of products but has not been fully implemented.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
One of the main ways the body eliminates unwanted cells is through apoptosis, a carefully controlled form of cellular "suicide."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
"But he invented a product that eliminates foot odor. Here, I've got a sample in my briefcase. I wish I had more. You two could bathe in it."
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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AI giant’s co-founder and chief executive, Dario Amodei, envisions a future where disease is all but eliminated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
In July 2026, when Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs, Coleman wrote that the roles eliminated “are not being replaced by AI.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The technology works by transforming excess glucose into gluconate, a substance that can be eliminated from the body through urine.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
“If the Board of Public Works was eliminated and concentrated within the authority of one person, I think that gives way to more corruption than transparency,” Councilmember Monica Rodriguez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The brothers eliminated almost two-thirds of the items on their old menu.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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That dual responsibility explained why eliminating the pathway had such an unexpected effect.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
The court acted after a task force found that eliminating Rule 5.4 could improve access to justice and emphasized that other ethics rules would continue to protect lawyers’ independence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Businesses began to cut expenses aggressively to offset rising borrowing costs, Katenga said, especially by eliminating white-collar jobs often filled by younger employees or recent college graduates.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The other is to provide her with hints about the major divisions of the sentence into phrases, thus eliminating some of the ambiguity in how to build the tree.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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