delete
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You don’t have to uninstall any apps or delete Facebook, though you could try it too.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
Alex also repeatedly asked one of the man to delete the video, and when he started running away, she took off her heels and chased after him.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Takahashi, however, said TikTok was "no longer obliged to delete" the videos in question because the anonymous user behind them had taken them down several months after the lawsuit began.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Please delete this,” she urged French on X. “This post breaks my heart. I see college kids cheering on their football team. I see Texans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
I power the phone back on and delete all of Tats’s messages.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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When a foreign company transfers funds, the U.S. clearing bank effectively deletes dollars from the foreign company’s account and adds them to the other party’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
When he arrives home, he stops the stream and deletes the pre-recorded file.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
He said he deletes the entries of ICE agents who have quit.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
Maybe Ms. Morales is just one of those people who deletes text messages right after she reads them, Emma told herself.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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They looked at who added DEI language, when they did so and whether they later deleted it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Stewart, to fulfill her Halloween homeless fantasy, donned a damaged knit cardigan, torn patchwork jeans and an oversize flannel button-down, according to screenshots of her deleted post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
"It's hard to admit when you've really screwed up," the billionaire, 85, wrote on Instagram after she deleted a photo of herself in ripped jeans, a torn sweater and a dirtied face.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Russell was 0.441secs off his team-mate while the fastest McLaren was 0.768secs from pole despite an upgrade for this weekend as Norris' best lap time was deleted for breaching track limits.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
She deleted his voice messages unheard and his e-mails unread, and she felt herself sinking, sinking quickly, and unable to pull herself up.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Agents typically know to ask permission before doing major things like making purchases or deleting files, but other than that, they can have free rein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Although the account itself is no longer viewable on the platform, the Tokyo District Court will rule on whether TikTok was responsible for deleting the posts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
When the website's editors noticed and started deleting pages, the agents shared code designed to retrieve them.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The lawsuit claims that the Education Department gave servicers instructions, known as a change request, on how to process these group loan discharges, including deleting credit trade lines.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
“You don’t even know. Yesterday Ainyr spent two hours deleting all the photos of him off her phone. Two hours! You know how many photos that is? They only went out a week!”
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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