erase
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“Finishing late does not erase ... everything residents endured getting here,” Jurado said in the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I cannot erase the image of that scorched cell from my mind.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
That disruption can scatter electrons and erase some of the performance gains engineers are trying to achieve.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
It was such a dismal year that she tried to erase it from her memory, pretending it had never happened.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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“Their vessel leaves a smooth, filigree-edged road on the ocean that vanishes and erases itself,” Enda notices on her voyage, “so that they can never find their way back, even if they want to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“She erases a lot of mistakes out there,” Ogwumike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Sandisk erases early gains after closing the previous session up 9.1%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
The new policy erases all ambiguity around the question of whether bot-made text can exist on Wikipedia’s public pages to begin with.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
She quickly erases her smile and tries for some modesty.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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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
And by the time I was done, Mr. Powell had erased all the lines, and my tern’s feathers were plunging against the air like all get-out.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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SpaceX shares were down 8% in early trading Wednesday, erasing most gains made in Tuesday’s session.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
The tails doodlelooped red on blue, erasing themselves as they flew.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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