erase
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An antitrust filing can erase a decade of shareholder value in an afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Their arrest does not erase the culture that elevated them.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"They can remove the statues, but they can never erase Bogyoke's image," one Yangon resident said, using the Burmese word for general to describe Aung San.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Any large-scale transformation of the planet could permanently erase parts of its natural history, limiting future opportunities to study Mars in its original state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
His was the lone voice telling me to just go for it, to erase the worries and go toward whatever I thought would make me happy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“It’s not like the SAT erases those inequities, but it’s not like the SAT adds to those inequities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Millions of crypto investors around the world are sitting on losses as a painful bear market erases trillions of dollars in paper profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
What’s left after content-filtering is a kind of garble that preserves intonation, pitch, and rhythm but erases content.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Tattooists say "bottomless tattoo" events are devaluing their craft, as removal specialists report growing demand from people wanting tiny tattoos erased.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The selloff erased some $69 billion in market value and dragged down shares of similar firms including Accenture and ServiceNow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
AI is also helping breathe life into queer histories that have been little acknowledged or risk being erased.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Most of the time, later debris flows would have erased the microbial mats.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
One second, barely nudged at the wrong angle, and it’s like all my months of physical therapy and recovery and carefulness have been erased.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
But erasing the memory of Suu Kyi's father is unlikely.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
In addition, data on new business formation indicate that, rather than erasing software jobs, AI makes setting up such businesses less costly, so enables more technology startups, Moody’s says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Inflation is so high that it’s erasing all wage gains,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote on X. “This isn’t just ‘bad vibes’ about the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Broadcom shares plummeted 13% Thursday, erasing $286 billion in market capitalization.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
And I want to know how I can be around the people I love and not be terrified of erasing myself.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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