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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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Takahashi, however, said TikTok was "no longer obliged to delete" the videos in question because the anonymous user behind them had taken them down several months after the lawsuit began.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Please delete this,” she urged French on X. “This post breaks my heart. I see college kids cheering on their football team. I see Texans.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

In the years that followed, she would occasionally redownload the apps, then delete them again when despair overwhelmed her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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

In fact, we can remove an infinite number of elements from the set of whole numbers—we can delete the odd numbers, for example—and the size of the set remains unchanged.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

When a foreign company transfers funds, the U.S. clearing bank effectively deletes dollars from the foreign company’s account and adds them to the other party’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past?

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In an X post that now appears to be deleted, Canada's energy minister Tim Hodgson said he attended the walk and posted two images from the event.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The world is run by social media, and if you are not on Instagram, if your business is missing and the address has been deleted, you don’t exist.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

When researchers completely deleted PRX3 from mesothelioma tumor cell lines, mitochondrial function declined, cell growth slowed sharply, and the cancer cells could no longer form tumors in animal experiments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Diego sent me a couple of texts, left some messages, but I deleted them unanswered and unread.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

A former governor was arrested in August, on accusations of deleting the security videos of the scene of the crime in Iguala.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The lawsuit claims that the Education Department gave servicers instructions, known as a change request, on how to process these group loan discharges, including deleting credit trade lines.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

Finally, after almost thirty minutes of typing, deleting, and typing again, she came up with something that seemed reasonable.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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