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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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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

Got to write the sentence and delete it.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

The letter underlined a legal warning made by Uefa that Fifa should not delete or destroy any documents related to the plans.

From BBC Aug. 10, 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 I delete it and turn off my phone.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

“Supervisor Barger’s iPhone auto-delete setting is set to 30 days. She also manually deletes her texts sometimes,” Barger spokesperson Helen Chavez Garcia said last month.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 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

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

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

The tweets were deleted along with all of Al-Sayed’s other posts dated before July 2023.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 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

After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

I stopped writing and deleted all the emails from my sent mail folder.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

The case emerges after Donaghy was on Wednesday convicted of two charges connected to deleting or attempting to delete an email to prevent disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

From BBC Aug. 27, 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 as I’d finished deleting these messages, I received another incoming call.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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