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[ri-moov] / rɪˈmuv /




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The trust said it "took immediate steps to remove the staff member from duty as part of the agreed protection arrangements".

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

This allowed the team to remove much of the environmental variation that complicates cancer studies involving humans.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

The light-bodied red, Passeggiata, he explained, was a rosé gone wrong when winemakers forgot to remove the grapes’ skins at the correct time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

The procedures remove plaque below the gumline and disrupt bacterial biofilms that contribute to gum inflammation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Erlan handed me the tweezers, and I looked for the best bone to remove.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

"This action is inconsistent with the FDA's own standards for pharmacy compounding, poses dangers to consumers, and removes incentives for developing new pharmaceutical products through the standard drug approval process," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Then, the hosts explain how a new law–which removes an existing requirement for mobile-home construction–might help the affordable-housing crisis.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2026

The FTA between the world's fifth and sixth largest economies removes or reduces tariffs on 99% of Indian exports to the UK and 90% of UK imports into India.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

It removes limits on large U.S. companies including Microsoft and OpenAI that have planned data centers in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

When she removes the molds, they make popping sounds, like suction cups.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

In a statement on Saturday, ICE - which dubbed him a "dangerous individual" - said he was ordered to leave the US on 23 March, and was removed from the country on 20 June.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

But when it was removed following 2008 because the IOC didn’t see enough global competition for the gold medal, she felt that she failed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Shareholders voted to retain Masino in November, but the company removed another board member.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

When attackers retrained models on dangerous knowledge, capabilities removed by conventional unlearning sprang back to nearly full strength.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

They simply removed the crabs from the top of the pedestal.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

The chronicle has a Kafka-esque ending, with the author on trial, accused of removing his relatives’ names from a list of Greeks with money in Swiss bank accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Von Hagens, an anatomist, lecturer and entrepreneur nicknamed "Dr Death," in the 1970s invented the plastination process, which involves removing water and fat from human and animal tissue and replacing them with chemical compounds.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Instead of focusing only on removing amyloid plaques, future treatments might aim to preserve beneficial early microglial activity or influence the transition between different microglial states.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Giaconda Belli, a writer and former guerrilla who left the Sandinista party in 1990 and now lives in exile, said she knows firsthand that removing an authoritarian leader is possible.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Allun brushed at his coat, as though removing the dried mud that clung there was all that was important to him.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda




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