Ablation
Ablation noun - The erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers.
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Synonyms for Ablation
Extraction and ablation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extraction" instead a noun "Ablation".
Extraction
Extraction noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.
Ablation and extraction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ablation" instead a noun "Extraction".
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- Whatever that "something" was, it resulted in organizations like the Strategic Prevention, Extraction, and Ablation Regiment trying to rebuild/keep the Masquerade against an unready world.
Source: The Unmasqued World - In the Heroes of the Storm fanfic Heroes Of The Desk it's not quite clear what items in the Strategic Prevention, Extraction, and Ablation Regiment's arsenal are actually Magic by Any Other Name versus simply being too advanced for "outsider" science to comprehend.
Source: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane - The Strategic Prevention, Extraction, and Ablation Regiment calls what appears to be, for all intents and purposes, magic, "Functional Supernatural Phenomena." They do, however, believe in Sufficiently Analyzed Magic as per Clark's Third Law unless they absolutely must fall back on A Wizard Did It.
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