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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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As I’ve written about before, I’m not one to delete my digital communications or files: I like having it all at my fingertips.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

She recalls a colleague who would simply delete all the emails he had been sent during his holiday.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Instead of firing Attiah, the newspaper could have conducted an investigation and interview with the columnist to understand her posts and could have asked her to delete the comments, Miller Espinosa said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Got to write the sentence and delete it.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Quang-ha is clever enough to delete the first paragraph of the Mark Twain paper and go through the computer file and misspell a dozen words before he prints it out.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

When that happens, he deletes records of the attempt.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

He said he deletes the entries of ICE agents who have quit.

From Slate Jan. 28, 2026

Maybe Ms. Morales is just one of those people who deletes text messages right after she reads them, Emma told herself.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

The tweets were deleted along with all of Al-Sayed’s other posts dated before July 2023.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

To investigate the receptor's role more closely, Andreasson's laboratory engineered mice whose EP2 gene could be deleted at a time chosen by the scientists, specifically in tissue-resident macrophages.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Kumar, the BJP social-media worker in Uttar Pradesh, said that when women apologized on social media, he deleted his tweets about them and no further action was pursued.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

But I didn’t believe him, like I didn’t believe him when he said he didn’t know how all the files I bookmarked about Guillermo got deleted.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

The company built a “policy server” that prevents agents from doing things like deleting data sets, and stops Cisco data from being used to train third-party models, Subaiya said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

A former chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council has been convicted of two charges connected to deleting or attempting to delete an email to prevent disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"After deleting Mitch, we examined, every few hours, the effect that had on more than 100 substances taking part in metabolism in human cells," Chourasia explains.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

“You don’t even know. Yesterday Ainyr spent two hours deleting all the photos of him off her phone. Two hours! You know how many photos that is? They only went out a week!”

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff




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