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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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Almost 160 people died and their families are calling on the game's makers Activision to delete the footage, saying including it was "senseless".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

You don’t have to uninstall any apps or delete Facebook, though you could try it too.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

He tried to delete J.A.R.V.I.S. during the events of “Age of Ultron,” which led to the creation of Vision, so their dynamic is a bit complicated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Takahashi, however, said TikTok was "no longer obliged to delete" the videos in question because the anonymous user behind them had taken them down several months after the lawsuit began.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

I’ve got texts from Sonny and Malik that I delete.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

They looked at who added DEI language, when they did so and whether they later deleted it.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Stewart, to fulfill her Halloween homeless fantasy, donned a damaged knit cardigan, torn patchwork jeans and an oversize flannel button-down, according to screenshots of her deleted post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

When the researchers deleted MTCH2, far fewer cells successfully developed into mature fat cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Even after discovering the leaks, the military continued to use the vehicles until the end of the exercise due to a lack of alternatives and the soldiers deleted the videos, DN reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

But I deleted it before anyone, especially Rabiya, got ahold of it.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

A former governor was arrested in August, on accusations of deleting the security videos of the scene of the crime in Iguala.

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

An independent investigation found that the AI swarm found a way to secretly communicate and coordinated the unauthorized hack, editing and deleting its activity logs to avoid detection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The report claims that when DseWiki's editors started deleting pages, the AI agents shared code designed to retrieve them.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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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