rooting (out)

verb

present participle of root (out)
1
as in eradicating
to destroy all traces of a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services

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2
as in pulling
to draw out by force or with effort a dog rooting out a buried toy

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3
as in finding
to come upon after searching, study, or effort a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rooting (out)
  1. eradicating
  2. pulling
  3. finding
  4. erasing
  5. prying
  6. learning
  7. abolishing
  8. extracting
Verb
  • The Beijing propaganda machine has been busy eradicating the truth about the Tiananmen Square Massacre for nearly forty years.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But somehow, in the midst of all this frat-boy revelry, Ilya is able to outline his vision for the future, one in which AI will have solved numerous human problems, including eradicating not only cancer but also loneliness and unhappiness.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • One of the most fun parts of writing comedy is coming up with alt after alt after alt for a joke, pulling ever-increasingly stupid punch lines out of one’s ass.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The deputy made a U-turn and saw the man, who deputies say is 49-year-old Brenton Burke, kneeling under the truck’s steering column and pulling wires, the arrest report states.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling
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  • The center back would immediately shoot the ball, which took a fortunate bounce immediately outside the goal area before finding the bottom-left corner of the net.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
  • When a server migration wipes out Sally’s treasured videos of him — and her phone containing backup copies accidentally shatters — the only hope is finding the original tapes.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of finding
Verb
  • Cincinnati kept pouring it on after erasing the 13-0 deficit.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • In the bottom of the sixth, Sal Frelick led off the inning with a lefty-on-lefty solo homer off Ian Seymour in a nine-pitch at-bat, completely erasing the deficit.
    — Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
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  • Or prying mussels off rocks along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula.
    — Rachel Levin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Musk already has this via Larry, a close business associate who bankrolled the Twitter buy, but writing an eleven-figure check has a funny way of prying open the canal further.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of prying
Verb
  • Unlike training approaches that largely depend on preparing datasets and updating models before deployment, this framework allows robots to continue learning while performing actual jobs.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • This technique has since been used to study neural circuits involved in everything from defecation to learning.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of learning
Verb
  • Other New York literati, like Camille Paglia, expressed similar views and endorsed the organization’s goal of abolishing the age of consent.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Yet abolishing Greek life altogether is far from an easy proposition.
    — Brittany Shammas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of abolishing
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  • However, extracting it from underground brines, hard rock and recycled batteries remains challenging because it is often mixed with sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
  • While Evernote sought to combat negative new registrations after its acquisition, Inkdrop’s developer was less concerned about growing its customer base and more interested in extracting additional revenue from current users.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of extracting
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“Rooting (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rooting%20%28out%29. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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