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I think the job is to get rid of categorizing and make it more fluid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
They were so ready to get rid of him that they were willing to eat tens of millions of dollars to cut him loose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Getting rid of chewing gum, getting rid of grotty looking bins, getting rid of graffiti, the things that are unsightly that none of us want to see," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The seller wanted to get rid of the property quickly, so Charles and his real-estate agent negotiated the sale price down to $80,000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
From these acts, the Nazi leaders concluded: “We wanted to get rid of our Jews, but the difficulties lay in the fact that no country wished to receive them.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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