1
as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
a decisive act that liquidated all doubts and fears about his governing abilities
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2
as in to assassinate
to put to death deliberately
his first act as absolute ruler was to liquidate his opponents
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Recent Examples of liquidate
The retail advisory firm projects that retailers will close about 15,000 stores this year as some legacy brands shrink and file for bankruptcy protection, or liquidating companies shutter locations.
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Melissa Repko, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
If your loan creeps up to 86% of your collateral’s value, your bitcoin could be liquidated to cover the outstanding balance and a penalty fee.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Eventually, the team's assets were liquidated and sold to Front Row Motorsports for a fraction of their initial value, although this did not immediately curtail operations.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
By Thursday morning, Chen had liquidated enough of the token to donate over $1 million to Hankinson’s lab.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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Melissa Repko, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
If your loan creeps up to 86% of your collateral’s value, your bitcoin could be liquidated to cover the outstanding balance and a penalty fee.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Eventually, the team's assets were liquidated and sold to Front Row Motorsports for a fraction of their initial value, although this did not immediately curtail operations.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
By Thursday morning, Chen had liquidated enough of the token to donate over $1 million to Hankinson’s lab.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liquidate
Verb
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Prions behave differently than viruses and bacteria and are virtually impossible to eradicate.—
Jim Robbin,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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In recent days the Trump administration and Musk have moved to eradicate the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance worldwide.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, in Jordan, Palestinians assassinated a king and attempted to overthrow the government.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Mujibur Rahman and most of his family were assassinated at the house in 1975.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Overall wholesale inflation, or a measure of prices businesses pay for goods and services, rose more than expected in January, but the core rate without energy and food was in line with economists' average forecast, the government said this morning.—
Medora Lee,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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She was paid the same as other hosts at the time – $3,000 – and put up in the Marriott Essex House overlooking Central Park, according to articles published at the time.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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Those odds dropped slowly with each game Ovechkin missed due to a fractured left fibula until all progress from his hot streak was erased.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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That’s surrender — to the idea that this is a zero-sum war where one side must be erased for the other to survive.—
Hen Mazzig,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, murdered my mother, two cousins, and six others in 2015 at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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As one of the messiest seasons on TV right now nears its finale, here's what happened this episode, from who was murdered and banished to how many traitors are left.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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Iowa State didn’t have the same problem as the Cyclones began to settle in.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Feb. 2025
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Applying early — before her full retirement age of 67 — means settling for a smaller check.—
Liz Weston,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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State police also executed a search warrant for Ivers’ medical records and blood samples.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: The early days of Trump's second administration — as Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) crew execute a hostile takeover of the federal government's digital infrastructure — are giving Washington a crash course in the importance of system permissions.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Liquidate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liquidate. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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