erase
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“There is no prison sentence long enough to erase the damage,” Doe said during the sentencing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
None of this will erase the clash of interests at the core of the U.S.-China relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"I've tried to kind of erase a lot of 2018 and what happened," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"This prosecution is an attempt to erase memories, particularly those of June 4, by reading too much into certain slogans," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
I step out onto the street awkwardly, thank her for the ride, and she drives away in a hurry to erase what was just said between us.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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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
“She erases a lot of mistakes out there,” Ogwumike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
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
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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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
So the fact that the VIX erased that spike by closing at 15.44 on Thursday, and by falling below 15 on Friday, means it produced a new “spike peak” buy signal for stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The boycotts since then have erased roughly $360 million in revenue for the U.S. wine industry, according to a Wine Institute report, which represents California wineries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
But he did not think his resentment of her could ever be erased.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The Green Bay Packers also triumphed in overtime by erasing a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets to win 20-17 - and snap a six-game losing streak.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Henry Ford dreamed of erasing the boundary between farm and factory.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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
By erasing history, the state institutionalized moral hazard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Burning lines raced through his consciousness, connecting far-flung dots and filling in blanks, erasing question marks and adding a dozen more for every one erased.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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