as in to abolish
to put an end to by formal action
lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards
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as in reversal
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Recent Examples of roll back
Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Given the ability, House Speaker Mike Johnson would roll back legalization.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Firmware rollback was and always will be available.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verb
A week later, his administration rolled back an 18-month extension of deportation protections for over 505,000 Venezuelans who are now waiting to see if the Trump administration will renew their program or leave them at risk of deportation — for some as soon as April.
—Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Given the ability, House Speaker Mike Johnson would roll back legalization.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
For some businesses, the rollback on DEI policies was tied to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2023, which ended affirmative action in college admissions.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Firmware rollback was and always will be available.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roll back
Verb
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About a quarter century after slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico (1873), another Afro-Puerto Rican genre emerged known as the plena.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jan. 2025
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Trump said in December that the debt ceiling should be abolished, a position shared by some liberal lawmakers.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the government, new appointees have been touting their reversals of diversity standards—the signal feature of what has been a rapid two-week effort to remake the preëxisting bureaucracy with an America First agenda.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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Zoom in: Local leaders and nonprofits, like the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay and Metro Inclusive Health, breathed a sigh of relief after the reversal.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
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On Monday, 19 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Costco demanding the company repeal its DEI policies within a month.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
31 Jan. 2025
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And hats off to everyone currently trying to figure out if their newborn babies are American citizens or not after Trump tried to rewrite the Constitution, repealing birthright citizenship via executive order.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Poland, the capricious degrees and forms of oppression, reflecting Stalin’s murderous personality, fostered a vacillating, self-deceptive kind of surrender by the captive mind, imprisoned not by bars or walls but by its own failures of conviction.—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
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This is not a plea for surrender but for a strategy that acknowledges both our strength and our limitations.—
Iuliia Mendel,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Today, as wildfires have laid waste to much of Los Angeles County, there are once again calls for lavish awards ceremonies to be rethought, if not canceled outright, as the likes of Jean Smart and Stephen King have suggested.—
Laurie Brookins,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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The Emmett School District canceled classes to deep clean all of its buildings, citing low attendance linked to the spread of various illnesses in the community.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When Did Charles Manson Die? In 1971, the court sentenced Manson to death for the murders, but California's abolition of the death penalty in 1972 commuted his punishment to life in prison.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
19 Nov. 2024
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This week reminds us that the road to abolition does not run in a straight line.—
Brian Stull,
TIME,
27 Sep. 2024
Verb
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And no one still with this organization will avoid the sting of Rantanen’s being traded.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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Also, avoid flying on Sundays and Mondays, which tend to be the most expensive due to weekend trips and business travelers, according to 2024 data from flight app Hopper.—
Amelia Edelman,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
Verb
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These actions reflect a broader legal movement challenging DEI policies in corporations, education, and government following the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions.—
Kaelan Deese,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
24 Jan. 2025
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In a memo, Meta acknowledged the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions as a key factor in the move.—
Jackson Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Roll back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roll%20back. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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