In a sentence
Six example sentences with elimination, each labelled with its topic.
One missed free throw meant elimination for the visiting side, and their season ended in a silent locker room.
Basketball
Public health teams celebrated the elimination of the parasite from the valley after four years of treated water.
Medicine
Cutting the third login screen was pure elimination, and the support queue shrank by half within a fortnight.
Technology
The tournament runs on single elimination, so one bad round sends a team home before lunch.
Gaming
By process of elimination the team ruled out the sensors and the wiring, leaving only the software to blame.
Science
The elimination of the slowest product line freed a whole factory floor for the model that actually sold.
Business
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains elimination. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.