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Example sentences for: rid

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3) China has thereby rid itself of an irksome "martyr" and his influence on the country.
Al Rai said that "the real aim of this strike is to get rid of Saddam Hussein and, in such a case, the real loser is international legitimacy and law."
Attneave was probably the first to think that these ideas could help unravel how the brain worked, and in a long series of works relating these ideas to experimental data, it was shown that the retina's business is mainly to get rid of the redundancies in the visual world.
The NYT sticks to this even as it blithely notes that in recent years Daimler has gotten rid of more than 40,000 employees.
The other day I put my hand on two full, ankle-length skirts at the back of my closet, one tweed and one black velvet, with the idea of finally getting rid of them.