Real-life examples: When you’re writing an essay, you might delete some paragraphs and add others. To better use data storage space, you might delete all of your junk email or delete a bunch of photos from your smartphone.
Used in a sentence: The reporter deleted the final two paragraphs of the story in order to make it shorter.

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