swept

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A lot of posts involving the Reddit debacle have been swept away, comments deleted, users shadowbanned.

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(military, of a body of water or part thereof) Cleared of mines (explosive devices).

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adjective

(military, of a body of water or part thereof) Cleared of mines (explosive devices).

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adjective

(military, of a body of water or part thereof) Cleared of mines (explosive devices).

Example sentences

A lot of posts involving the Reddit debacle have been swept away, comments deleted, users shadowbanned.

The officer involved shootings of unarmed people are consistently swept under the rug.

I find Helena to be dry, wind-swept, and lacking an intellectual community (smoking, drinking and gambling are more prominent).

He's not talking about a few downvotes either, he's talking about the huge numbers of people who get swept up into eg Twitter shitstorms.

Worse, that assumption is swept under the rug rather than explicitly stated.

For me, I was able to move from that realization to being able to not get swept up in thoughts.

I haven't seen many good examples of arguments that don't just swept under the rug.

But vulnerabilities should be patched, not swept under the carpet.

Usually the fact that it's less than zero-sum is swept aside and covered up by selling the future taxing power of the state via increasing the debt.

It was pretty wild being underway on the west coast of the US and seeing a huge smear appear on the radar as a container ship swept by.

The blockaded the coast, swept the very much over-matched Qing navy aside (the Qing navy was more of an anti-piracy force, really), and launched an attack towards the Imperial capital.

Anytime you've got a problem that can be decomposed into distinct subcomponents that only need minimal contact with each other you can keep most the real nasty concurrency issues swept under the carpet.

Quote examples

Was I asleep when "this" meme swept through the internet?

This leads to far more solid and well tested operations practices that respect service interactions and you don't wind up with "we swept it under the rug" problems like the RethinkDB 2.1 beta announcement's "with only a few seconds of unavailability".

(Revolutions take about 20-30 years from idea to success in the market, if the latter ever happens.) C is the granddaddy of the "worse is better" philosophy that swept the computing world about 30 years ago, and, so C-style brackets are part of the "comfort zone" that most programmers inhabit.