eradication
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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
This, along with farmers and landowners trapping and killing wolves, pushed them to the brink of eradication.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
It is thought that at least a quarter of a million wolves once roamed from coast to coast before European settlers embarked on campaigns of eradication that endured into the 20th century.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
In 2023, there were 12 documented cases of wild polio worldwide, and the disease is now on the verge of global eradication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Yet the program of sage eradication has been under way for a number of years.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
There have been successful local disease eradications, but they often came at a price.
From Nature ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
If eradications in general are hard, eradications on inhabited islands are really hard.
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
Vocabulary lists containing eradication
President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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"Ideas Live On" by Benazir Bhutto (2007)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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