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Other nations targeted by China’s export controls, such as Japan, are also taking steps to erode Beijing’s dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Make sure there’s an inflation rider — inflation over 30 years could erode the value of your policy if you don’t have one in place — and that the policy covers dementia.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Other items seek to help California defend itself from federal efforts to erode the state’s environmental authority.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He added: "Our work suggests that tectonic uplift related to continental rifting and breakup created both steep slopes and high ground, providing the mountainous terrain that rivers and glaciers could readily erode."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

This job was about maintaining power, and goodwill could erode that power.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

One is mechanical stress, in which repeated contact with water droplets creates friction that slowly erodes a coating or causes pieces of it to peel away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Using the Congressional Budget Office’s projected 2026 borrowing pace, he finds one year of debt issuance erodes an additional 18 basis points of the remaining margin.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

"Improved public services and better learning outcomes in schools will reinforce trust -- but if AI embeds bias in government decisions or erodes data privacy, that trust will be difficult to recover," said the statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The county said it all “further erodes confidence” in the district’s budgeting abilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The wildflowers can’t push up, and when they don’t grow, the soil erodes and is carried into the streams by the rain.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

If those safeguards are gradually eroded, he says, “the issue is no longer only whether the AfD is ‘bad for Jews.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Savers may be offered more generous returns, but the spending power of their savings could be eroded by the rising cost of living.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Storm surf generated by Hurricane Marie and runoff from a storm drain outfall eroded a large portion of the festival site," said a statement from the city of Santa Monica.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

At the Old Bailey last year, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said Gill had abused his position and had eroded "public confidence in democracy".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But now she felt numb, as if by the fifth time repeating it, throwing herself against the rocks of her grief, they had finally eroded, leaving nothing but smooth cold emptiness behind.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Mallorca’s tourism model is increasingly a victim of its own success, as overcrowding risks eroding what made it special in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The practice was banned in 2020, but the bare faces that cutting left behind are still collapsing and eroding today, washing sediment down into reservoirs.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Communities have seen waves pound the coastline, eroding the shore and putting homes and infrastructure at risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

In an era when short TikTok and YouTube videos are being blamed for eroding attention spans and fueling a reading crisis, social media, it transpires, is creating new audiences for the classics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

“The Empire State Building isn’t eroding anytime soon.”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer