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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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She said he insisted she delete social media so their relationship remained "just between us".

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Instead of firing Attiah, the newspaper could have conducted an investigation and interview with the columnist to understand her posts and could have asked her to delete the comments, Miller Espinosa said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Got to write the sentence and delete it.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

On June 15, Daniel Haido, an associate producer of “Fortitude,” dropped off an unencrypted copy of the movie for Netflix to view and instructed the staff to delete the files after the screening.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

But it’s just like the old posts on Instagram that I can’t get myself to just delete.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

He said he deletes the entries of ICE agents who have quit.

From Slate Jan. 28, 2026

Rivas’ office said that’s due in part to prevent people from impersonating elected officials: If a user deletes their X account, the username can be claimed by someone else 30 days later.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2025

Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A police analysis of surveillance footage from the home showed that multiple clips from that morning had been deleted, according to a San Jose Police Department detective’s statement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

To investigate the receptor's role more closely, Andreasson's laboratory engineered mice whose EP2 gene could be deleted at a time chosen by the scientists, specifically in tissue-resident macrophages.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Kumar, the BJP social-media worker in Uttar Pradesh, said that when women apologized on social media, he deleted his tweets about them and no further action was pursued.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

At Poillon’s suggestion, Lawrence deleted the WPA acknowledgment from papers that involved medical work financed by the Macy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The report claims that when DseWiki's editors started deleting pages, the AI agents shared code designed to retrieve them.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"We discovered that deleting Mitch led to a major drop in fats in membranes," Gross explains.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

On Wednesday night, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported being told that “the aerial image of the crowds from last week’s his rally enraged him so much that officials ended up deleting them.”

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

I've been typing this and deleting this and trying to think of a better way to phrase this.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli




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