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It would also erode investors’ trust in lending again to any government that tried it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But studies show AI text detectors are often unreliable, generating false positives that can erode trust between instructors and students and forcing teachers to devise innovative methods to detect cheating and evaluate assignments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Women's Aid chief executive Farah Nazeer meanwhile said the scheme could further erode "incredibly low" trust in the criminal justice system, meaning "even greater numbers of women and children may be left without protection".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Root systems protect Lake Tahoe’s clarity by stabilizing soils that could erode, and uptaking nutrients that would feed algae in the lake,” Cowen wrote in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

He knew the smell of impending loss, how it felt to have parts of his life erode from under him and be swept away.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

And when inflation erodes spending power, those discretionary purchases slow, Samuelson noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

In a statement Saturday, Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said that, “failing to hold yesterday’s meeting is unacceptable and erodes public trust.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

She wrote a series of articles about the problem of loneliness among older people, which she described as "a creeping enemy which erodes confidence."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

One is mechanical stress, in which repeated contact with water droplets creates friction that slowly erodes a coating or causes pieces of it to peel away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

As the icebergs drift, the seawater erodes them from below, until the berg abruptly topples over and continues its journey upside down.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

It’s unclear what caused the crack, but a Laguna Beach spokesperson said in an email that the recent storm surges could have eroded the base of the slope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Over the last few weeks, California’s coastline has been battered by repeated high-surf events that have eroded beaches and damaged infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

In Malibu, an enormous sink hole emerged in the driveway of a home belonging to Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage when pounding waves from a nearby hurricane eroded the coastline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Halo was once to Xbox what Mario is to Nintendo," said Corden, "but years of mismanagement have eroded that".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Kneeling before our little statue of the Virgin with an eroded face I endeavored to pray for my future husband.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Muddling along would come at an economic cost, with the rising cost of repaying debt eroding the government’s room for more productive investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The practice was banned in 2020, but the bare faces that cutting left behind are still collapsing and eroding today, washing sediment down into reservoirs.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Communities have seen waves pound the coastline, eroding the shore and putting homes and infrastructure at risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Whatever was eroding inside my father, withering his muscles and stripping his nerves, he viewed it as his own private challenge, as something to silently withstand.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama