erase
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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
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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
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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
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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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