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• Plaschke: The Dodgers paid $22.5 million to be rid of Trevor Bauer?
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The desire to be rid of the virus is strong as fatigue has set in.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
• America should not have to wait 14 days to be rid of him.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2021
• The voters couldn’t be rid of Wilson and Wilsonism fast enough.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• In 1995, the Cleveland Browns couldn’t wait to be rid of Belichick, who seemed distant and cerebral.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• The notion that we may be rid of them someday might be another.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Still, Jughead seemed grateful to be rid of the container.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Dusseldorf patient is latest to be rid of HIV with no signs of return.
  — Dr. Kaviya Sathyakumar, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Most fans will consider billions more, this time in the form of one final check, a price worth paying to be rid of them.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• According to Johnson-Smith, the deal was a lifeline for the couple, who just want to be rid of the drama of the property.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• The biggest change is Disney will at long last be rid of this cringe-inducing chapter of its past.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• But in the aftermaths of their expulsions from the Oval Office, their parties, even the public, couldn’t be rid of them fast enough.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• Some of their core constituencies owe a lot of money for their degrees and would be delighted to be rid of the burden.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Dec. 2021
• City officials were all too happy to be rid of the market as residences were offended by the crowds and the smells.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2022
• We, the destroyers, will thus be rid of our own industrial waste.
  — The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• In March, officials in the Denali Borough based in Healy, about 25 miles from the bus, voted unanimously to be rid of it.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2020
• The Cowboys are desperate to give Prescott more than $30 million per year again while the Eagles are taking a dead cap hit of over $30 million just to be rid of Wentz.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2021
• The Everglades will likely never be rid of Burmese pythons, and the wildlife that once thrived there will likely never recover.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Mar. 2021
• And while some people will delight in their natural spectacle, others will just want to be rid of them.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 11 May 2021
• Unfortunately, the comic-book gods must be fed, and thus, the lousiness of the rest of the movie and the end of a franchise flirtation that, all told, Stone is probably pleased to be rid of.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• If all goes as expected, the town will be rid of the carcinogenic reference by December, the mayor said.
  — Marie Fazio New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• We are being forced to ask ourselves whether the American wish to be free of history arose out of the desire to be rid of stories that are painful or difficult.
  — Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2021
• Every year, without fail, the Glazer family—which owns the English football club—denies wanting to be rid of all or even part of its stake.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2022
• The Lions offered the Rams a chance to be rid of Goff’s contract in exchange for assets Detroit can use in the future, the only thing that matters to a team clearly in a deep rebuild.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2021
• His father, Herbert Brown, inherited the business and wanted above all to be rid of the statue’s shadow.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 4 July 2020
• In March, officials in the Denali Borough based in Healy, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the bus, voted unanimously to be rid of it.
  — NBC News, 19 June 2020
• The islanders had rid themselves of their colonial masters, but not by revolution; the colonial masters had wanted to be rid of them.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• But there’s no polite, classy or defensible way to be rid of Julie altogether.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• But there’s no polite, classy or defensible way to be rid of Julie altogether.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• In certain circles — big circles — this will be cause for celebration, with baseball fans rejoicing that they are finally be rid of Buck on the mike.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024