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as in repealing
to put an end to by formal action
the U.S. abolished slavery by constitutional amendment on December 6, 1865
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as in eradicating
to destroy all traces of
if only there were a way that we could abolish hatred and intolerance
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Recent Examples of abolishing
Stein has called for abolishing student and medical debt.
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Margie Cullen, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz endorses abolishing the Electoral College.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
Racism, 100 years after abolishing slavery, was at its peak (Ole Miss riots and the rise of George Wallace are just a few examples ), with the KKK brutalizing African Americans in the South.
—Vuk Vukovic, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
The ideal outcome when abolishing an agency is the complete disappearance of its regulations.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Extending or abolishing term limits is a common power play in dictatorships, as the experiences of Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni illustrate.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2018
Margie Cullen, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz endorses abolishing the Electoral College.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
Racism, 100 years after abolishing slavery, was at its peak (Ole Miss riots and the rise of George Wallace are just a few examples ), with the KKK brutalizing African Americans in the South.
—Vuk Vukovic, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
The ideal outcome when abolishing an agency is the complete disappearance of its regulations.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Extending or abolishing term limits is a common power play in dictatorships, as the experiences of Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni illustrate.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2018
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The response comes amid allegations that the institution was caving to Chinese pressure by erasing Tibetan cultural denominations.The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Shares of Tesla climbed 32% in the third quarter, erasing their loss for the year in the process.Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
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All these offices could be scaled back without canceling routes.Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Saks Fifth Avenue is canceling its annual flagship-store holiday light show.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Keeping the excessive usage of drones in ongoing wars in mind, the United States Army’s Apache helicopters are training to get better at destroying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) mid-flight using Hellfire missiles, among other ammunition.Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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While undoubtedly devastating, the Israeli military said at the beginning of the campaign that reports of these airstrikes destroying 50 percent of Hezbollah’s rockets were most likely exaggerated.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Abolishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abolishing. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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