erase
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Of all the recent attempts to erase the cultural past embodied in stone, Palmyra in Syria still stands out.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Deliberate racist intent hasn’t been established yet, but that doesn’t erase the impact.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Doing so would not erase any of what followed.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"The more they try to silence or erase the name of Memorial in Russia, the louder it will sound outside Russia," she promised.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
I close my eyes, trying to erase his image.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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“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
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
At about 180 million years old, they formed during a time when animals were actively disturbing the seafloor worldwide, which normally erases delicate microbial textures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
The gain erases a move lower that followed a post by President Donald Trump saying he was directing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities earlier this month.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Their gentle pressure erases the past few months, and I am the girl who sat on the rocks next to the chasm, with river spray on her ankles, and kissed him for the first time.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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That process erased the physical structures that could have revealed what those bodies originally contained.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The boycotts since then have erased roughly $360 million in revenue for the U.S. wine industry, according to a Wine Institute report, which represents California wineries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mladić "deserved to be erased from memory for good, not to be... promoted as a hero," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
The shock of discovering the woman’s identity seemed to have completely erased his anger.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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The Green Bay Packers also triumphed in overtime by erasing a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets to win 20-17 - and snap a six-game losing streak.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
By erasing history, the state institutionalized moral hazard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
White realized that the conspirators were not only erasing evidence—they were manufacturing it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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