erase
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I am sharing this because I believe that whoever is responsible is hoping to erase her in every way possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Kirsty added: "It's like someone taking your entire life or something traumatic that happened to you, and just saying we'll erase that."
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
The United Steelworkers union said that although it recognizes the stresses on Canada’s steel industry, difficult market conditions can’t automatically erase commitments that were central to the approval of a major foreign acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But you have to erase 660 pages every day, and get a callus on your finger that won’t go away for the rest of your life.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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 yen now virtually erases all the losses it suffered since the U.S. military operations in Iran started in late February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
I say it over and over again like a prayer until the rhythm of the words erases my fear.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Heading into Friday’s trading, Tesla had erased more than $200 billion in market capitalization over a two-day span.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
South Korea’s Kospi erased earlier losses and closed 0.6% higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
In an October poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by The Times, Bass erased an 11-point gap with Raman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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
The warmth of his voice erased any worry she had about possibly being in trouble.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Wall Street barely had time to celebrate Wednesday’s postelection rally before Thursday delivered a brutal reversal, erasing nearly $3 trillion in market value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Trying to determine their state can cause that state to collapse, potentially erasing the very information scientists want to retrieve.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
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
Banks Index fell 3.7%, bringing it close to its long-term moving average and erasing part of its summer gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
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