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Cardiff is one of these and Lee Young, who lives in the city, has been trying to get rid of his broken fridge-freezer for two months.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I have to say that last time around, I voted to get rid of the SAT, and I’m starting to believe I might have made a mistake,” Regent Jay Sures said to the board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
And…when we get rid of Wiatt, we’ll immediately put you back on the board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"With the new laws trying to get rid of the grappling, Konsa is all over Ballard. You have to be looking at the ball," former England midfielder Karen Carney said on TNT Sports.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
I don’t blame her for wanting to rid the kitchen of rotting fruit.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
You will appreciate the richer flavor and be happy to have finally ridded yourself of those unattractive scrambled-egg bits of white that invariably dot your final product when whole eggs are used in your recipe.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
"My wife and I both had a really ridded our house as much as possible of single-use plastic," he says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2018
In my youth it was the best part of the year down south because the great breaks could be ridded early and late in the day with few others around.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was conscious of having somehow ridded herself of a load of uncertainty and anxiety.
From A Millionaire of Yesterday by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Yaroslavsky credits Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program for ridding her district of big homeless encampments, but said more data is needed to ensure the programs are cost-effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
His experience demonstrates that far from ridding sports of backroom deals and bagman boosters, the deluge of legal NIL money incentivizes and gives cover to the illicit market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
I thought about explaining to her my mother’s ingenious method of ridding the house of roaches— cracker crumbs and marshmallow—but then I thought, This is June, forget it.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
