delete
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At university Jazmin decided to delete her social media accounts entirely.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Frequently review and delete the AI’s financial memories.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Kalshi told the influencers to delete the posts, which violated company guidelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Downing Street has confirmed that the prime minister uses an auto delete function on his phone meaning his WhatsApp messages with and about Lord Mandelson may have been lost.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
I tell Ms. Blinny, “But can you delete it?”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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
The link to the live stream - scheduled for 27 July - was uploaded to the Heat's channel on Tuesday before being deleted.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sony has pulled similar moves before: in 2023, the company deleted over 1,000 seasons of Discovery TV shows customers had purchased due to content licensing arrangements.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Google no longer stores location history data on its servers and has deleted all such data.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Flock’s default setting is 30 days; after that, photos are deleted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
I got my phone out of my pocket and began typing a text to send her, begging her to rescue me from Marcus, but I deleted it and put my phone away.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
He famously tweeted “SELL” in January 2023 before deleting his X account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
While the tokens at large became tradeable, Sun said World Liberty has blocked him from being able to sell a single one, and is now threatening to "burn" his - deleting them entirely.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Just as I’d finished deleting these messages, I received another incoming call.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing delete
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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