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The Moneyist says that, while the relationship sounds transactional, even the best friendships can erode.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

He added: “I’d like to see the entire beach erode all the way to our property before the road went across it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

This is particularly important because acids produced by oral bacteria can gradually erode tooth enamel, increasing the risk of cavities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

And all of this could threaten to erode - if not explode - the rock on which scientific research rests: trust.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Did the mountain erode in all the rain?

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

In that teaching, the pope warned against a “technocratic paradigm” that defines people based on their productive outputs and erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

As a team, we believed that inspiration erodes apathy and yields empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

She wrote a series of articles about the problem of loneliness among older people, which she described as "a creeping enemy which erodes confidence."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In concentrated markets, companies have every incentive to avoid competing aggressively because competition erodes margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

A patch of the flowers was carefully dug up at a site on the coast where it has been eroded away by the sea over the last few years.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Simply put, the world has eroded its supply buffers,” Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil company Adnoc, told executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

While this funding stream has been eroded by inflation and failed to keep pace with population growth, state-level investments have been expanding to fill the gap.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Workers say the rising cost of food, housing, transport and healthcare has eroded their purchasing power in a country with eight percent inflation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Large areas of the former Fertile Crescent are now desert, semidesert, steppe, or heavily eroded or salinized terrain unsuited for agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

El Niño-fueled weather has already battered the California coast this year, causing flooding from San Diego to Marin County, damaging scores of homes and other structures and eroding coastal cliffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Droughts, El Niño, an eroding coast and the year-round threat of wildfires, much of it accelerated by climate change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The company’s operating margins expanded in the third quarter to 32% as cloud revenue skyrocketed, suggesting big AI investments aren’t eroding core profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

With the advance of the spring, their floe was eroding at the edges.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong