Eliminate commonly takes from when someone or something is removed from a group, process, or competition.
Use eliminate from when someone or something is removed from a place, list, competition, or process. In and by usually add context or method rather than forming a fixed pattern with eliminate.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use from when someone or something is removed from a competition, list, process, or location.
By introduces the method, cause, or agent responsible for elimination.
In usually introduces the area or situation where elimination happens, not the thing removed from.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Use from to show what group or place something was removed from.
✕ She was eliminated in the contest. ✓ She was eliminated from the contest.By explains the method or cause, not the larger set.
✕ He was eliminated by the tournament. ✓ He was eliminated from the tournament.In can describe where elimination happened, but not the source group itself.
✕ The player was eliminated in the team. ✓ The player was eliminated from the team.After eliminate, from is often needed to show the source group.
✓ Several names were eliminated from the list.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. Eliminate from is the usual pattern for removing something from a group, event, or system.
Yes. By explains the method, cause, or agent responsible for the elimination.
Not always. In can describe the context where elimination happens, but not the source group being removed from.
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