erase

"Every major disaster threatens to erase years of development. And it forces a poor country to borrow money to repair damage it did not cause."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

They work by cutting DNA to create identifying marks, which can damage cells and erase information left by earlier divisions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The slump in Canada’s labor market in September reduces the likelihood of a Bank of Canada rate increase late this month, but doesn’t erase it, Oxford Economics’ Tony Stillo argues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Now, we all know what this is. This little tool is magical and can alter the past and erase your mistakes.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

“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

But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 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

Happy memories of better, easier times with Dad come at me in pieces, but the last thing he said to me erases it all.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The slide erased $499.8 billion from Alphabet’s market value, the second biggest single-session loss for any company on record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“My New York friends tend to think of the ’60s as a kind of golden moment that’s now been erased by commercial focus,” Berlant told The Times in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

On the first attempt, Gemini 3.6 Thinking, Grok Fast and ChatGPT 6 all erased the facial visible difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

By uncovering a volcanic system that had been largely erased from the geological record, researchers have added another piece to the complex story of how Earth's continents and oceans evolved over millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

He didn’t ask “Where’d you learn that?” and so Josie didn’t have to make up any stories that erased the dirty, squabbling children she’d known at her old neighborhood day care.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

It also means erasing the construct of Hal’s consciousness that has guided John since his mentor died.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Brahms went so far as to retrieve letters he’d written to friends and destroy them, erasing the past “so far as he can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

I picture her frantically erasing her work on the math exam after I turned mine in and wish again that I’d tried to explain the two-variable equations when she asked me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison