erode
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Women's Aid chief executive Farah Nazeer meanwhile said the scheme could further erode "incredibly low" trust in the criminal justice system, meaning "even greater numbers of women and children may be left without protection".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Other nations targeted by China’s export controls, such as Japan, are also taking steps to erode Beijing’s dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A rapid strengthening of the yuan would erode China’s international competitiveness, slowing exports and economic growth, said economists at Goldman Sachs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
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
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As a team, we believed that inspiration erodes apathy and yields empathy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
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
As the icebergs drift, the seawater erodes them from below, until the berg abruptly topples over and continues its journey upside down.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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In Malibu, an enormous sink hole emerged in the driveway of a home belonging to Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage when pounding waves from a nearby hurricane eroded the coastline.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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
Savers may be offered more generous returns, but the spending power of their savings could be eroded by the rising cost of living.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Crews then removed some of the failed pavement and moved sand to backfill and secure some of the eroded edges,” the Instagram post read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
I come around the back corner, and there is the eroded hill, with its few sparse trees.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Already this year, multiple counties have declared local emergencies as a spell of powerful, tropical storms from the Pacific sent high surf to Southern California, eroding local beaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Normally, rising energy prices could hurt the consumer by eroding inflation-adjusted earnings, but “what’s swamped that is the wealth effect that is coming from the equity market,” said Pathak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
The rial has plunged to record lows, reaching around 2.2 million to the US dollar in recent days, while year-on-year inflation hit 89 percent for the Iranian month ending August 22, sharply eroding purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In many of Seattle’s nicest hillside neighborhoods—places like Alki and Madrona and Magnolia—homes slid from eroding bluffs and tumbled into Lake Washington or Puget Sound.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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