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erase

[ih-reys] / ɪˈreɪs /


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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

“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

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

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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