erase
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I cannot erase the image of that scorched cell from my mind.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
We have literally and metaphorically tried to erase our actual history in favor of a mythical past that never existed — even in bad LSD trips.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
The decline could erase $460 billion from the company’s market capitalization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
An antitrust filing can erase a decade of shareholder value in an afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
So he waited while Mr. Fantana gathered his lesson plans, put the tops back on his dry erase markers.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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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
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
Sandisk erases early gains after closing the previous session up 9.1%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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
What’s left after content-filtering is a kind of garble that preserves intonation, pitch, and rhythm but erases content.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The tribunal concluded in a ruling last month that Rahman's misconduct was "fundamentally incompatible with continued registration" and erased him from the medical register allowing him to work as a doctor.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
When the company published its second-quarter earnings Wednesday, it confirmed the disappointing results that it previewed last week in a rare move that erased about $67 billion in stock market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The light was gone, but it had etched something onto her wrist that had never been erased, just hidden for years: the indigo ink of a Namwon tattoo.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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
Alnylam stock is up 2.4%, erasing some gains after opening up 16%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But over millions or billions of years, they are capable of utterly erasing even very large impact scars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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