delete
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“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
She said he insisted she delete social media so their relationship remained "just between us".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
Got to write the sentence and delete it.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
I follow Metias’s instructions and delete every last trace of his blog.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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
In a moment of fraught tenderness, she deletes it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Ben deletes, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past?
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
The students stopped the recording, deleted the video and gave the device to a teacher, the Tracy Police Department said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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
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
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
Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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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