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erase

[ih-reys] / ɪˈreɪs /


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“Deliberate racist intent hasn’t been established yet, but that doesn’t erase the impact.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Of all the recent attempts to erase the cultural past embodied in stone, Palmyra in Syria still stands out.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

No amount of wealth can erase retirement worries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Doing so would not erase any of what followed.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

I have no time to erase the stricken look on my face, but, lucky for me, she associates it with the conditioner and curling iron that I left on the desk.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“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

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

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

The number erases all that has gone before, stamps it null and void.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

Mladić "deserved to be erased from memory for good, not to be... promoted as a hero," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

After a long, painful downdraft that erased more some $2.2 trillion in value, cryptocurrencies — and, notably, bitcoin — have come roaring back this week.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Only last month, Hera had erased his memories to put him among the Roman demigods.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

He also reminded her repeatedly that U.S. airspace had been shut down, erasing the threat of an attack on the West Coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Mom, double Is in Halloween,” Lori said, erasing Mom’s writing and penciling in the changes.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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