erase
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"I'm totally sympathetic with schools for withdrawing him and bookshops withdrawing him as an individual decision. But the point is, none of that is going to erase what's happened."
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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
They work by cutting DNA to create identifying marks, which can damage cells and erase information left by earlier divisions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The slump in Canada’s labor market in September reduces the likelihood of a Bank of Canada rate increase late this month, but doesn’t erase it, Oxford Economics’ Tony Stillo argues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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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“Their vessel leaves a smooth, filigree-edged road on the ocean that vanishes and erases itself,” Enda notices on her voyage, “so that they can never find their way back, even if they want to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“She erases a lot of mistakes out there,” Ogwumike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
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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Across the past two trading days, Tesla has erased $216 billion in market capitalization and SpaceX has about $240 billion in value, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The slide erased roughly $500 billion from Alphabet’s market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the same time, existing Indigenous and Afro-diasporic cosmologies were either erased or absorbed, hiding in plain sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
On the first attempt, Gemini 3.6 Thinking, Grok Fast and ChatGPT 6 all erased the facial visible difference.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
He didn’t ask “Where’d you learn that?” and so Josie didn’t have to make up any stories that erased the dirty, squabbling children she’d known at her old neighborhood day care.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
Cryptocurrencies also pared losses, with bitcoin nearly erasing all losses to last sit down 0.2% at 77,697.45.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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
It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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