delete
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The case emerges after Donaghy was on Wednesday convicted of two charges connected to deleting or attempting to delete an email to prevent disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Got to write the sentence and delete it.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
On June 15, Daniel Haido, an associate producer of “Fortitude,” dropped off an unencrypted copy of the movie for Netflix to view and instructed the staff to delete the files after the screening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Frequently review and delete the AI’s financial memories.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I’ve already had to delete a few people because they want to believe that no one did anything wrong. Well, no one except Javier.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
He said he deletes the entries of ICE agents who have quit.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents the area devastated by the Eaton fire, also routinely deletes her text messages, her spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The tweets were deleted along with all of Al-Sayed’s other posts dated before July 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Kumar, the BJP social-media worker in Uttar Pradesh, said that when women apologized on social media, he deleted his tweets about them and no further action was pursued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
According to Spanish outlet El Mundo,, external Gonzalez has deleted all photos of herself with her wife and their first child, born in January, from her social media accounts since signing for Al Qadsiah.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“She deleted them after we downloaded everything,” Chip moaned.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The company built a “policy server” that prevents agents from doing things like deleting data sets, and stops Cisco data from being used to train third-party models, Subaiya said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
A former chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council has been convicted of two charges connected to deleting or attempting to delete an email to prevent disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"We discovered that deleting Mitch led to a major drop in fats in membranes," Gross explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
I think about deleting the line, but then she writes back.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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