delete
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At university Jazmin decided to delete her social media accounts entirely.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Frequently review and delete the AI’s financial memories.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Downing Street has confirmed that the prime minister uses an auto delete function on his phone meaning his WhatsApp messages with and about Lord Mandelson may have been lost.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Go to your settings—in ChatGPT it is under Personalization, in Claude and Gemini it is in the memory section—and review what’s there and delete if necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Scott stayed up watching TV, and I’d forgotten to delete my browser history.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
OpenAI automatically deletes temporary conversations from servers within 30 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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
“Supervisor Barger’s iPhone auto-delete setting is set to 30 days. She also manually deletes her texts sometimes,” Barger spokesperson Helen Chavez Garcia said last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The FDA said it hadn’t issued an official apology, and Taylor Farms later deleted a social-media post highlighting one, though its original weekend statement remains on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Paredes' red card was deleted on the system shortly afterwards and Fifa has confirmed to BBC Sport that no disciplinary action was taken at the time.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sony has pulled similar moves before: in 2023, the company deleted over 1,000 seasons of Discovery TV shows customers had purchased due to content licensing arrangements.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Later in the evening, Webb deleted his account and has not reactivated it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Are you kidding me? I deleted everything. I don’t want no trouble!”
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
He was later given a second final warning for deleting his search history.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
"We discovered that deleting Mitch led to a major drop in fats in membranes," Gross explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
After Maduro’s arrest, Van Dyke sought to conceal his conduct, including by deleting his Polymarket account and transferring funds through a foreign cryptocurrency vault, prosecutors said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Just as I’d finished deleting these messages, I received another incoming call.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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