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#To root out definition series#
Phillip Phillips won the eleventh season of American Idol and has sung the National Anthem at American sporting events, including the World Series back in 2012. It’s an upbeat song, rather easy to understand, I think. Related: Episode 132: El Chapo is convicted, but will anything change with drug cartels? JR’s song of the week Authorities in Mexico are trying to root out the police that aided El Chapo for so many years. You can also root out tangible things, like illegal doctors. You can root out corruption, root out cheating, root out illegal activity, root out a bad culture: you can use “root out” with something intangible, like that, something you can’t touch. Related: Episode 140: Lying, cheating and bribing: how some wealthy parents got their kids into top universities Government investigators, and now prosecutors, are trying to root out the culture of cheating in college admissions. In episode 140, we talked about a huge cheating scandal in university admissions. So, far from rooting out the problem, he was part of it. Of course, that ex-administrator is now under investigation himself and is banned from football. The ex-administrator of FIFA pledged to root out any wrongdoing in the international football association. I was looking for a good example online, and came across this one. A new mayor may take office and declare he or she wants to root out corruption in city government. Otherwise they would just be dealing with it on the surface.Ī very common way to use “root out” is with the word “corruption.” Corruption is like, dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people. Only by digging deeper, really searching, really investigating, can they root out the problem. I’m sure they’re looking at many more things than that, but you get the idea. Instead, they’re analyzing big data sets to see which doctors are prescribing much more than average how many prescriptions are being issued per patient or per visit if there are areas in which the same patient gets prescriptions from multiple doctors. That would be like just cutting out the visible part of a weed, or an unwanted plant. If they just waited for complaints to come in, and if they only investigated the clinics that were the subject of complaints, then they wouldn’t be rooting anything out. The investigators are using analytics to find the bad clinics and remove them. The US government is using data analytics to root out clinics that were overprescribing drugs. So here’s how you heard it right at the end of the episode. That is the image I want you to have when you think about this phrasal verb, “root out.” To find something bad and remove it-but remember that image. You need to dig in to get to the roots, and pull them out. Just cutting off the part you see won’t be enough. So if you have weeds or plants you want to get rid of, you need to dig deep and pull them up by the roots. The “root” is the part of a plant that goes all the way down into the earth, into the soil. Usually that something is hidden from view. What does it mean to root something out? It means, fairly simply, to find something bad and remove it. This is a good phrasal verb today: to root out.
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