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erase

[ih-reys] / ɪˈreɪs /


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The decline could erase $460 billion from the company’s market capitalization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

“Rather than erase those histories and make the campus feel as though it had always been a singular space, we wanted the landscape to celebrate them.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

An antitrust filing can erase a decade of shareholder value in an afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Their arrest does not erase the culture that elevated them.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

The “Collective” was going to erase all our En Cognito programs.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The yen now virtually erases all the losses it suffered since the U.S. military operations in Iran started in late February.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

The three singers at least remember the name of the “Men in Black” device that erases your memory: The Neuralyzer.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 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 faceless quality of the Net erases the problems geeks face in the "real" world of image, fashion, communication skills, etc.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

U.S. stocks on Friday closed out a brutal month that erased a chunk of the summer’s gains in technology names.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

A spell has erased Peter Parker from the world’s memory — the price of undoing the public exposure of his identity — leaving him a stranger to his best friend, Ned, and to MJ.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Market volatility has erased some funds’ value with sickening speed—most famously 2018’s “Volmageddon.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Like they erased him, just because he no longer lived in the house next door.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Both stocks and bonds saw wild swings, while the dollar finished 0.5% lower — more than erasing all of its gains from earlier in the month, based on the performance of the ICE U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

The benchmark Kospi tumbled 8.1% Friday afternoon, erasing Thursday’s gains as investors grew concerned that the rapid growth in profits of chip manufacturers that supply the AI industry could top out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Broadcom shares plummeted 13% Thursday, erasing $286 billion in market capitalization.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

He corrects himself, starting “again with passion,” erasing, and finally wearing “a hole in the paper with the rubbing of the eraser.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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