as in to abolish
to put an end to by formal action
lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards
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as in reversal
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Recent Examples of roll back
Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
Ironically, Prop 36., which rolled back some of the changes of Prop. 47, is expected to result in more incarcerations, thus reducing future years’ savings.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
Jasmine Browley, Essence, 27 Jan. 2025
Target joins at least 12 major corporations that have announced rollbacks to DEI programs aimed at communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community, including Amazon, McDonald’s, and Walmart.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Facing a court’s action, the White House rolled back the order.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
Ironically, Prop 36., which rolled back some of the changes of Prop. 47, is expected to result in more incarcerations, thus reducing future years’ savings.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
Among those most affected by the rollback are Black retail brands that are already disproportionately overlooked by supplier distribution and funding.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 27 Jan. 2025
Target joins at least 12 major corporations that have announced rollbacks to DEI programs aimed at communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community, including Amazon, McDonald’s, and Walmart.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roll back
Verb
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Soter said companies that had been preparing to meet the rule's requirements could see the writing on the wall, with Donald Trump's election victory marking a reversal from the climate action under President Joe Biden.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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This stark reversal of values is a signature of the Trump restoration.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Lawmakers in some states have looked at reducing the eligibility for Medicaid, either by letting existing legislation expire or by actively repealing the expansion brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which could impact the healthcare of millions.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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In his first weeks in office, Trump has accelerated this process, issuing unconstitutional executive orders and directives purporting to repeal birthright citizenship and directing OMB to freeze funding for thousands of federal programs in violation of an act of Congress.—
Lawrence Norden,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That’s surrender — to the idea that this is a zero-sum war where one side must be erased for the other to survive.—
Hen Mazzig,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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The message attached to the sword was a surrender tag.—
Kevin Chroust,
Outside Online,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Deployment to Ukraine is canceled, deployment to Gaza, however, is still on the table.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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As part of a broader immigration crackdown, his administration quickly canceled all appointments people had made through a U.S. government app.—
Julie Watson,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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His decision is a nudge toward a more rational death penalty and perhaps its eventual abolition.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery.—
Ilana Masad,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In a post on X, the NYPD asked people to avoid the area as the investigation proceeded.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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The couple have been riding high ever since, with Harlow famously avoiding singer Usher’s flirtatious serenade during his Las Vegas residency out of respect for the Milwaukee Buck back in 2023.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: This comes as enrollment of first-year Black and Hispanic medical students nationwide has fallen sharply after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education, Axios' Maya Goldman writes.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
13 Feb. 2025
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More than murder The Senate’s bill analysis notes that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down mandatory death sentences before, and that the new proposal could face conflicts with another existing Supreme Court precedent that restricts the death penalty to murder cases.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
12 Feb. 2025
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