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It also means more years in which inflation can erode purchasing power.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

He added: “I’d like to see the entire beach erode all the way to our property before the road went across it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

This is particularly important because acids produced by oral bacteria can gradually erode tooth enamel, increasing the risk of cavities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

And all of this could threaten to erode - if not explode - the rock on which scientific research rests: trust.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

He knew the smell of impending loss, how it felt to have parts of his life erode from under him and be swept away.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

She wrote a series of articles about the problem of loneliness among older people, which she described as "a creeping enemy which erodes confidence."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“As tides change and sand erodes over time, it is common for military ordnance to reveal itself at this location,” the post stated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

In concentrated markets, companies have every incentive to avoid competing aggressively because competition erodes margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

The wildflowers can’t push up, and when they don’t grow, the soil erodes and is carried into the streams by the rain.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

While this funding stream has been eroded by inflation and failed to keep pace with population growth, state-level investments have been expanding to fill the gap.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

That benefit could be eroded, though, if factories are still dependent on U.S. suppliers for major components.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

But this "social contract" has clearly eroded, says Roos.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Both Newport Beach and Long Beach are also rushing to move sand to shore up eroded beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

But all he saw was a straight pencil line of canal going violet through a wide shallow valley penned by low, eroded hills, and on until it fell over the sky’s edge.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

El Niño-fueled weather has already battered the California coast this year, causing flooding from San Diego to Marin County, damaging scores of homes and other structures and eroding coastal cliffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI found that “overreliance on chatbots can have a range of significant negative consequences—diminishing critical thinking, weakening memory, eroding confidence, and undermining mastery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Throughout the run of the show, performers will slowly chip away at the block, symbolically eroding what is left of the original communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Lines of old corn stubble planted in some earlier year rode the eroding rises.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck