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Taiwanese investigators said Wednesday they have raided dozens of locations as part of a probe into 17 Chinese-funded companies suspected of trying to "illegally" poach Taiwan's high-tech talent to erode the island's competitive edge.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In his first public comments on the transaction, Ellison rejected claims that a combined media giant would exert excessive control over the market or erode newsroom independence.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

As permafrost thaws and coastlines erode, some of that carbon is carried into the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

It can also erode the sender’s tolerance for uncertainty, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

He knew the smell of impending loss, how it felt to have parts of his life erode from under him and be swept away.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

"Improved public services and better learning outcomes in schools will reinforce trust -- but if AI embeds bias in government decisions or erodes data privacy, that trust will be difficult to recover," said the statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

But often those patients can’t pay, leaving their bills to become bad debt that erodes hospital profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

That erodes the purchasing power of the yen and feeds into the inflation problem that the Bank of Japan only recently started raising interest rates to fight.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Every time City Hall fails to do that— potholes that don’t get fixed, streetlights that stay dark, 911 calls that go unanswered — it erodes people’s faith that government can solve problems at all.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

As the icebergs drift, the seawater erodes them from below, until the berg abruptly topples over and continues its journey upside down.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The social contract forged by the Revolution, he said, "has eroded" in recent years.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Freshly eroded fragments make the coastal ocean cloudy, while dissolved organic carbon can darken the water.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

After months of war eroded the market’s inventory buffers, crude prices have risen sharply to reflect the risk of further losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli re-established the comfortable championship lead that had been eroded in the past three races with victory in the Belgian Grand Prix while team-mate George Russell crashed out.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Or I’d be walking along the shoreline with the others, and I’d spot him wading up to his waist through the shallows, impossibly thin and pale, as though his time at sea had eroded him.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Columnist Nicole Nguyen discusses how that’s eroding our sense of reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Media observers say the public anger reflected years of eroding confidence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

This misperception carries profound consequences and is currently rippling through our world, eroding trust, deepening isolation and creating a social environment in which empathy is swiftly becoming an atrophied muscle in desperate need of exercise.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

While that may have been good policy in the past since those workers often had an easier time working longer, that gap may be eroding.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

They have gone through this cycle at least twice, possibly more—rising to awesome heights, eroding away to nothingness, rising again, each time recycling their component materials in a dazzlingly confused and complex geology.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson