eradication

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Calling the eradication of extortion “one of the great challenges” facing Mexico, Sheinbaum pledged to bolster enforcement, stiffen penalties and increase safeguards for anyone receiving threats.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

A programme of rat eradication began in 2017 and winter grazing has now been implemented to keep vegetation low, so predator cover is reduced.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

"Its eradication requires a wider societal response in parallel with a policing one and publication of this action plan is an important step."

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

Thus, there are few things Westerners take for granted more than reduced child mortality, reduced death in child birth and the eradication of history’s most brutal diseases like polio and smallpox.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

By the end of the summer, he declared his intention to make the eradication of poverty a key legislative objective in 1964.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander