erase
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The success has helped erase doubts that have long dogged Purdy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Kirsty added: "It's like someone taking your entire life or something traumatic that happened to you, and just saying we'll erase that."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
They work by cutting DNA to create identifying marks, which can damage cells and erase information left by earlier divisions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
It was enough to erase all of Ma’s irritating advice.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“She erases a lot of mistakes out there,” Ogwumike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
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
Sandisk erases early gains after closing the previous session up 9.1%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
And with the press of a button she erases his fear.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Across the past two trading days, Tesla has erased $216 billion in market capitalization and SpaceX has about $240 billion in value, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The slide erased roughly $500 billion from Alphabet’s market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“My New York friends tend to think of the ’60s as a kind of golden moment that’s now been erased by commercial focus,” Berlant told The Times in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
On the first attempt, Gemini 3.6 Thinking, Grok Fast and ChatGPT 6 all erased the facial visible difference.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
All the trouble Old Petey’s missed opportunity had caused was being erased from existence.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Wall Street barely had time to celebrate Wednesday’s postelection rally before Thursday delivered a brutal reversal, erasing nearly $3 trillion in market value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Trying to determine their state can cause that state to collapse, potentially erasing the very information scientists want to retrieve.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Banks Index fell 3.7%, bringing it close to its long-term moving average and erasing part of its summer gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
It also means erasing the construct of Hal’s consciousness that has guided John since his mentor died.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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