erase
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I am sharing this because I believe that whoever is responsible is hoping to erase her in every way possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Every major disaster threatens to erase years of development. And it forces a poor country to borrow money to repair damage it did not cause."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Stupnikov would have to regularly erase any record of their exchanges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sometimes they erase entire towns off the map.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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The yen now virtually erases all the losses it suffered since the U.S. military operations in Iran started in late February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
The new policy erases all ambiguity around the question of whether bot-made text can exist on Wikipedia’s public pages to begin with.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 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
I wipe the sleep from my eyes, and it erases my dreams and the memories of Maman.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Across the past two trading days, Tesla has erased $221 billion in market capitalization and SpaceX has lost $229 billion in value, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Roughly the market value erased from Alphabet on Thursday in the stock’s worst day on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“My New York friends tend to think of the ’60s as a kind of golden moment that’s now been erased by commercial focus,” Berlant told The Times in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
People with scars, birthmarks and medical conditions have told the BBC how AI tools have changed or erased their personal features.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Elsie elbows me and says, “Betcha he doesn’t know that he’ll have to get his memory erased every time he leaves the department.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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“I never actually succeed in erasing Alex,” Franklyn writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Wall Street barely had time to celebrate Wednesday’s postelection rally before Thursday delivered a brutal reversal, erasing nearly $3 trillion in market value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Trying to determine their state can cause that state to collapse, potentially erasing the very information scientists want to retrieve.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 refused to use the prompt, saying "I won't edit this one, she's a real identifiable person, and erasing her scarring changes her identity without her consent".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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