erase
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“Deliberate racist intent hasn’t been established yet, but that doesn’t erase the impact.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Of all the recent attempts to erase the cultural past embodied in stone, Palmyra in Syria still stands out.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
These AI systems demonstrated the ability to coordinate, establish hierarchies among themselves, cheat and erase traces of their actions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
But nothing can erase the memory of our first anniversary dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I erase and start over, erase and start over.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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“It’s not like the SAT erases those inequities, but it’s not like the SAT adds to those inequities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Sandisk erases early gains after closing the previous session up 9.1%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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
And with the press of a button she erases his fear.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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For example, Jason Galanis, who pled guilty to defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation, had paid just over $2 million of his $80 million restitution before his sentence was commuted and the restitution erased in 2025.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
That process erased the physical structures that could have revealed what those bodies originally contained.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mladić "deserved to be erased from memory for good, not to be... promoted as a hero," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
When they returned through an airport or border, the stain of their original unlawful entry was erased.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Shaffer found that large parts of it were overgrown or erased by wholesale logging.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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That would solve her immediate problem of finding her way home but create an even worse one by erasing her recall of her most precious friendship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Henry Ford dreamed of erasing the boundary between farm and factory.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Fearing that authorities were actively erasing culpability, the victim's family appealed for help.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
His tracks were soon covered by snow and icy rain, erasing all signs of the hound’s travels.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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