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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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There are fears they could delete emails, which Meta has said itself, or charge a credit card without authorization.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

In the years that followed, she would occasionally redownload the apps, then delete them again when despair overwhelmed her.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

She said a perception that Donaghy had been too close to the DUP "formed the basis" of Donaghy's decision to delete the email.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Got to write the sentence and delete it.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

When a foreign company transfers funds, the U.S. clearing bank effectively deletes dollars from the foreign company’s account and adds them to the other party’s.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 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

When he arrives home, he stops the stream and deletes the pre-recorded file.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

Ben deletes, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past?

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The post was archived by cybersecurity researchers before the channel was deleted.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The students stopped the recording, deleted the video and gave the device to a teacher, the Tracy Police Department said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 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

“And the files get deleted after a few days. I went ahead and deleted this one early. There was only one person who pulled it before me.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

He was later given a second final warning for deleting his search history.

From BBC Jul. 10, 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

“Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page,” he said.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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