delete
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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
Got to write the sentence and delete it.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Relatives and acquaintances called my parents, urging them to make me delete my videos or face the consequences.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Zohra and I took a ton of silly shots, and I’m surprised he didn’t delete our worst selfie fails.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it holds, and proposes financial compensation for the material it has already used.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Ben deletes, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past?
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
But she never found any matches and earlier this year, deleted the app because her phone storage was full.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Nike will be deleted from the S&P 100.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 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
She happily deleted the entry for Randall Stubbs and asked, “What’s your name?”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported being told that “the aerial image of the crowds from last week’s his rally enraged him so much that officials ended up deleting them.”
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Finally, after almost thirty minutes of typing, deleting, and typing again, she came up with something that seemed reasonable.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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