elimination
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The elimination of import quotas, taxes and other trade restrictions has led to an "avalanche" of imports that have been like a body blow to Kioshi, Fernandez said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Back-to-back years of thousands of cases set the stage for the country to lose its measles elimination status that it achieved in 2000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But a surge of cases in recent years, driven by falling vaccination rates, has threatened that elimination status and sickened thousands of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The mayor’s office said the plans would include protected bike lanes without the elimination of lanes and would “implement signal modifications to increase safety.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The first necessity is the elimination of tolerances on the chlorinated hydrocarbons, the organic phosphorus group, and other highly toxic chemicals.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Nadella criticized executives who have thought of AI technology as a tool for reducing costs through job eliminations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
But this isn’t to say that workers of any age should blithely assume they’ll be immune to job eliminations due to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025
The next two years were abject disappointments, with the team getting upset in back-to-back NL Division Series eliminations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
From the breakneck eliminations of “Chopped” to the glitzy stakes of “Top Chef,” it’s easy to feel as though food television has entered its well-worn phase — perfectly palatable, but lacking a certain secret ingredient.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
“OK. Now. We’ll have eliminations like always. Count off by fours. Then we’ll run all the ones together, then the twos—” • “We know. We know.”
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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Vocabulary lists containing elimination
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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