- present participle of erase.
erasing
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Wall Street barely had time to celebrate Wednesday’s postelection rally before Thursday delivered a brutal reversal, erasing nearly $3 trillion in market value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Trying to determine their state can cause that state to collapse, potentially erasing the very information scientists want to retrieve.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 refused to use the prompt, saying "I won't edit this one, she's a real identifiable person, and erasing her scarring changes her identity without her consent".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The ninth pitch was over the plate—and Frelick sent it soaring over the center-field fence, erasing a Tampa Bay lead that might have been insurmountable for anyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Still, when she turns from erasing the board, she doesn’t say anything like, Welcome back, or It’s good to see you.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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