delete
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Mills said she finished singing “Home,” and the stars took photos, but before she left, Gaga’s team stopped her at the elevator and insisted she delete the pictures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Asked if she was the one to delete them, she replied: "Yes, I did. Kieran Hayler was asking to delete my messages."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Takahashi, however, said TikTok was "no longer obliged to delete" the videos in question because the anonymous user behind them had taken them down several months after the lawsuit began.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Please delete this,” she urged French on X. “This post breaks my heart. I see college kids cheering on their football team. I see Texans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Please delete that. I wasn't ready for a picture.”
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
When that happens, he deletes records of the attempt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Bryan quickly deleted the screenshots, but LaPaglia responded with several posts of her own, including what she claimed was a message from Bryan’s manager detailing potential terms of an NDA.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Piercy said it was not accepted on behalf of Hayler that such texts had been sent to her at any time, to which the complainant replied that they were "deleted, long gone, years ago".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
A trove of more than 3,000 screenshots of posts from Hammami’s deleted X account are still available on Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a webpage-cataloging platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
"The man subsequently deleted the image and the related application in an attempt to conceal his actions," the police statement said.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Burton held up his phone, scrolled to the video, and deleted it.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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Rather, he said by deleting duplicated language in the charter, the rules will be easier to understand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Although the account itself is no longer viewable on the platform, the Tokyo District Court will rule on whether TikTok was responsible for deleting the posts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The lawsuit claims that the Education Department gave servicers instructions, known as a change request, on how to process these group loan discharges, including deleting credit trade lines.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“You don’t even know. Yesterday Ainyr spent two hours deleting all the photos of him off her phone. Two hours! You know how many photos that is? They only went out a week!”
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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