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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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Instead of firing Attiah, the newspaper could have conducted an investigation and interview with the columnist to understand her posts and could have asked her to delete the comments, Miller Espinosa said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 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

At university Jazmin decided to delete her social media accounts entirely.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

When I wanted to become my old self again, all I had to do was delete the Lynch identity and copy my prints and retinal patterns back over to my original file.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

When he arrives home, he stops the stream and deletes the pre-recorded file.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

He said he deletes the entries of ICE agents who have quit.

From Slate Jan. 28, 2026

Maybe Ms. Morales is just one of those people who deletes text messages right after she reads them, Emma told herself.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

After several weeks of this doomscrolling, she deleted all of her social media apps.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

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

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

Then deleted all the apps from his phone.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

The report claims that when DseWiki's editors started deleting pages, the AI agents shared code designed to retrieve them.

From BBC Sep. 4, 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

"After deleting Mitch, we examined, every few hours, the effect that had on more than 100 substances taking part in metabolism in human cells," Chourasia explains.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

On Wednesday night, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported being told that “the aerial image of the crowds from last week’s his rally enraged him so much that officials ended up deleting them.”

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

I start writing to Tom, writing and deleting, writing and deleting, trying to find ways to ask forgiveness for the things I said last night.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins




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