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Eroding admissions standards and obscuring academic deficiencies set students up for failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Eroding the public’s confidence in state and federal authorities can prove as dangerous as high winds in a calamitous situation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

Eroding out of the area’s wave-battered limestone cliffs are the inhabitants of a tropical sea from 200 million years ago, including squidlike ammonites, pterosaurs, and a slew of marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022

Eroding cliffs: A new study conducted by researchers at U.C.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Eroding us, absorbing us—whatever you want to call it.

From Vampires of Space by Wright, Sewell Peaslee