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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being eradicated.

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  • adjective Capable of being eradicated.

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  • adjective Capable of being eradicated

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  • adjective able to be eradicated or rooted out

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Examples

  • A billion people are hungry, hundreds of conflicts and wars are ongoing, tens of millions suffer from eradicable diseases, there is always at least one genocide underway somewhere on the planet, more people still live under dictatorships or oppressive regimes than live in free societies, and arms dealers still make more money than farmers.

    A Conversation with Chris Cleave about Little Bee 2010

  • But once it's initiated, there's a lot of good data that's indicating that the earlier you start therapy, the better off you are from the standpoint of not allowing the virus to form a non-eradicable reservoir, namely such a reservoir that even if you stop therapy after years, the virus is still there, and how you can prevent the really progressive destruction of the immune system, which takes place over years.

    Scientists Say A Gel Can Slow HIV Spread 2010

  • A billion people are hungry, hundreds of conflicts and wars are ongoing, tens of millions suffer from eradicable diseases, there is always at least one genocide under way somewhere on the planet, more people still live under dictatorships or oppressive regimes than live in free societies, and arms dealers still make more money than farmers.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • A billion people are hungry, hundreds of conflicts and wars are ongoing, tens of millions suffer from eradicable diseases, there is always at least one genocide under way somewhere on the planet, more people still live under dictatorships or oppressive regimes than live in free societies, and arms dealers still make more money than farmers.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • A billion people are hungry, hundreds of conflicts and wars are ongoing, tens of millions suffer from eradicable diseases, there is always at least one genocide under way somewhere on the planet, more people still live under dictatorships or oppressive regimes than live in free societies, and arms dealers still make more money than farmers.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • One experiment in the artificial setting of a lab might not be very persuasive on the question of whether racism is eradicable, especially when pitted against real-world evidence of how African-American home buyers are discriminated against by financial institutions, for instance, and dark-skinned criminal defendants are treated more harshly than whites by jurors.

    How Your Brain Looks at Race 2008

  • His race is as in eradicable as the flea-beetle; the last man lives longest.

    Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy Leiter, Brian 2007

  • Conservatives such as Lorenz von Stein and liberals such as the British utilitarian political economists consider them an in - eradicable feature of modern societies.

    CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

  • We deem it advisable, in order to examine the hide properly so-called, to dispense with those eradicable substances which may be regarded, to some extent, as not germain to it, and confine our attention to the raw stock, freed from these imperfections.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

  • These shores had been washed with a redder stain in years gone by: these people were forever stamped with the eradicable scar of suffering borne by generations dead.

    Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

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