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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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Alex also repeatedly asked one of the man to delete the video, and when he started running away, she took off her heels and chased after him.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

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

I tell her I like the second photo best, and then I delete the entire conversation.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

“Supervisor Barger’s iPhone auto-delete setting is set to 30 days. She also manually deletes her texts sometimes,” Barger spokesperson Helen Chavez Garcia said last month.

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 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

But she never found any matches and earlier this year, deleted the app because her phone storage was full.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, Nike will be deleted from the S&P 100.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Maybe Hudson and Box Boy deleted every single picture of each other and untagged the ones their friends posted.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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 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

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

Just as I’d finished deleting these messages, I received another incoming call.

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




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