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erase

[ih-rays] / ɪˈreɪs /


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“There is no prison sentence long enough to erase the damage,” Doe said during the sentencing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Never say never, but I don’t think the effort to erase my time as CEO is very consistent with me wanting to go back on “It’s a Small World.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"I've tried to kind of erase a lot of 2018 and what happened," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

These AI systems demonstrated the ability to coordinate, establish hierarchies among themselves, cheat and erase traces of their actions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Like somehow if she tells me what I want to hear, it’ll erase the likelihood that he’ll say no.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The yen now virtually erases all the losses it suffered since the U.S. military operations in Iran started in late February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

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

He erases the board slowly, then says, “I could use a helper next period, just this one time.”

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

For example, Jason Galanis, who pled guilty to defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation, had paid just over $2 million of his $80 million restitution before his sentence was commuted and the restitution erased in 2025.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

That process erased the physical structures that could have revealed what those bodies originally contained.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

When they returned through an airport or border, the stain of their original unlawful entry was erased.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The tribunal concluded in a ruling last month that Rahman's misconduct was "fundamentally incompatible with continued registration" and erased him from the medical register allowing him to work as a doctor.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

“The past is not erased, Archivist,” said Spurge wisely.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Henry Ford dreamed of erasing the boundary between farm and factory.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

He also reminded her repeatedly that U.S. airspace had been shut down, erasing the threat of an attack on the West Coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Fearing that authorities were actively erasing culpability, the victim's family appealed for help.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

He enjoyed saying something and then erasing it.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg




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