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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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“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

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

Relatives and acquaintances called my parents, urging them to make me delete my videos or face the consequences.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

My stomach flips again, but I wrinkle my nose, about to delete the message, and then the four o’clock reminder for the AffloVest pops onto my screen, a tiny animated pill bottle dancing.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“The world is run by social media, and if you are not on Instagram, if your business is missing and the address has been deleted, you don’t exist.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ben-Gvir deleted the post following criticism, but not before it amassed millions of views online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

When researchers completely deleted PRX3 from mesothelioma tumor cell lines, mitochondrial function declined, cell growth slowed sharply, and the cancer cells could no longer form tumors in animal experiments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Are you kidding me? I deleted everything. I don’t want no trouble!”

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

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

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

Finally, after almost thirty minutes of typing, deleting, and typing again, she came up with something that seemed reasonable.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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