erase
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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