erase
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But if the index falls below the positive-gamma threshold and dealers return to negative gamma, selling could accelerate and erase a larger portion of the rally.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Then results from Apple sank its stock in after-hours trading and are set to erase about $350 billion of market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Rather than erase those histories and make the campus feel as though it had always been a singular space, we wanted the landscape to celebrate them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Their arrest does not erase the culture that elevated them.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
I kind of wish I could erase him.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Millions of crypto investors around the world are sitting on losses as a painful bear market erases trillions of dollars in paper profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Sandisk erases early gains after closing the previous session up 9.1%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
The three singers at least remember the name of the “Men in Black” device that erases your memory: The Neuralyzer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The drastic fall erased more than $1 trillion in market value from the company, though it still retains a $1.6-trillion market cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
U.S. stocks on Friday closed out a brutal month that erased a chunk of the summer’s gains in technology names.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The last time viewers saw Peter Parker, he had voluntarily erased himself from the memories of his loved ones.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
From then on, whenever the teacher left the room or simply wasn’t looking, Palmer erased what he had just written.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
But erasing the memory of Suu Kyi's father is unlikely.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Shares in Halma were down 11% in European morning trading Thursday, erasing part of the stock’s gains over the past few months to leave it up 17% since the start of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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