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Make sure there’s an inflation rider — inflation over 30 years could erode the value of your policy if you don’t have one in place — and that the policy covers dementia.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Other items seek to help California defend itself from federal efforts to erode the state’s environmental authority.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Nearly all are requiring ethics courses along the way — as educators continue to grapple with cheating and with fears that heavy AI use will erode critical thinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

He added: "Our work suggests that tectonic uplift related to continental rifting and breakup created both steep slopes and high ground, providing the mountainous terrain that rivers and glaciers could readily erode."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

The days continued to wear on, and their floe continued to erode.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

A status quo that steadily erodes is not stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

One is mechanical stress, in which repeated contact with water droplets creates friction that slowly erodes a coating or causes pieces of it to peel away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Using the Congressional Budget Office’s projected 2026 borrowing pace, he finds one year of debt issuance erodes an additional 18 basis points of the remaining margin.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

"Improved public services and better learning outcomes in schools will reinforce trust -- but if AI embeds bias in government decisions or erodes data privacy, that trust will be difficult to recover," said the statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The snow erodes, leaving the potholes in the roads near our house filled with muddy water.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

"Halo was once to Xbox what Mario is to Nintendo," said Corden, "but years of mismanagement have eroded that".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Already this year, multiple counties and towns have declared local emergencies as a spell of powerful tropical storms from the Pacific generated high surf that eroded local beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Further south, at least seven homes in Dana Point were declared uninhabitable after the coast on which they sit rapidly eroded, with one house collapsing into the sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

A more-prolonged shutdown would have eroded investors’ faith in the markets, officials worried at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

I could make out the spine and ribs—wearing a breastplate of eroded greenish bronze—but the rest of the skeleton was too deep within the coral now.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Kyl was single-handedly responsible for forcing the government to upgrade the eroding U.S. nuclear arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The practice was banned in 2020, but the bare faces that cutting left behind are still collapsing and eroding today, washing sediment down into reservoirs.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In an era when short TikTok and YouTube videos are being blamed for eroding attention spans and fueling a reading crisis, social media, it transpires, is creating new audiences for the classics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

He should know about eroding the foundations of commonality.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

“The Empire State Building isn’t eroding anytime soon.”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer