delete
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He ordered Hanson to delete the tweet and pay Faruqi's legal costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
The woman alleged that Jackson repeatedly refused to delete the video and then taunted her with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
After I cleared him, I was going to delete my suspect list from my phone and mind my own business.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
In a moment of fraught tenderness, she deletes it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Fraser had deleted texts from his own phone to conceal his relationship with Broadus.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some data going back to late December will be deleted as a result, and Manus urged users impacted by the change to back up their data.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
His office added that only three contacts were listed in the phone, and that it was too early to determine whether any data had been deleted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Wales Office deleted a post on X that had contained the claim.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
"After deleting Mitch, we examined, every few hours, the effect that had on more than 100 substances taking part in metabolism in human cells," Chourasia 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
The updates included more advanced photo editing capabilities, amplifying existing Apple features and making it possible to spatially adjust photos in myriad ways, altering the framing in addition to deleting unwanted people or background objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
I think about deleting the line, but then she writes back.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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