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bite (at), corrode, eat, fret, gnaw, nibble
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During that last century or two of Maya civilization, environmental stresses, like droughts, seem to have eroded the stability of the Maya world, leading to a sharp escalation in conflict between kingdoms. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Warring Maya kingdoms razed enemy cities to the ground," 6 Aug. 2019 Human rights activists said that the moves to change Kashmir’s status were only the first steps in a broader plan to erode Kashmir’s core rights and seed the area with non-Kashmiris, altering the demographics and eventually destroying its character. — New York Times, "India Revokes Kashmir’s Special Status, Raising Fears of Unrest," 5 Aug. 2019 The Party uses China’s economy to silence dissent against its brutal repression and to erode the sovereignty of American allies like Taiwan. — John Fund, National Review, "American Movie Studios Are Wrong to Appease Chinese Censors," 28 July 2019 The statue proved so popular that the surrounding landscape began to erode. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "A Statue in the U.K. Had to Be Moved Because It Was Too Popular," 26 July 2019 Just as the image of the perfect family starts to erode, one of the girls ends up dead under her watch–and Rowan finds the finger pointed in her direction. — Annabel Gutterman, Time, "Dark Secrets at Book Club and a Deadly Wellness Retreat. 5 Unexpected Summer Thrillers," 25 July 2019 Financial difficulties this year had begun to erode the company’s ability to maintain its schedule of flights to smaller cities in the Southeast and as far north as West Virginia and as far west as Arizona. — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, "Via Airlines of Maitland sold to Atlanta charter flight service," 11 July 2019 The fallout from the protests promised to further erode a rocky relationship between rank-and-file police officers and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. — Gillian Flaccus, Twin Cities, "Police seek suspects from Portland protests after fights break out, journalist is assaulted," 2 July 2019 The opportunity for this kind of biometric collection infrastructure to feed into a broader system of mass surveillance is staggering, as is its ability to erode privacy. — Allie Funk, WIRED, "I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy," 2 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'erode.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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