erase
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I cannot erase the image of that scorched cell from my mind.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
That disruption can scatter electrons and erase some of the performance gains engineers are trying to achieve.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The decline could erase $460 billion from the company’s market capitalization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Rather than erase those histories and make the campus feel as though it had always been a singular space, we wanted the landscape to celebrate them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
I can’t help smiling at hints of their personalities the Collective couldn’t erase.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Millions of crypto investors around the world are sitting on losses as a painful bear market erases trillions of dollars in paper profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The three singers at least remember the name of the “Men in Black” device that erases your memory: The Neuralyzer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
At about 180 million years old, they formed during a time when animals were actively disturbing the seafloor worldwide, which normally erases delicate microbial textures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
Their gentle pressure erases the past few months, and I am the girl who sat on the rocks next to the chasm, with river spray on her ankles, and kissed him for the first time.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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U.S. stocks on Friday closed out a brutal month that erased a chunk of the summer’s gains in technology names.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The last time viewers saw Peter Parker, he had voluntarily erased himself from the memories of his loved ones.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
That erased $215 billion in market value after the electric-vehicle maker missed earnings targets and reported negative cash flow for the first time in two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
He walks in with his friend, and when he sees me, his smile disappears like someone’s erased it from his face.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
But erasing the memory of Suu Kyi's father is unlikely.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
In fact, the Glassdoor report noted that remote workers may be feeling increased pressure to log more working hours at home, effectively erasing the time they saved by skipping the commute.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
The sound of flying darts cutting through the air to his left and right, finding targets, urged him to hurry, erasing any other thoughts from his mind.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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