wipe
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Mothers wipe dust from photographs of their children.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This can generate heavy short-term capital-gains taxes that can wipe out any extra returns.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The rise in automation, though, has also raised concerns about whether AI will wipe out certain jobs in software engineering, customer service, entertainment and other areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Sunrun is likely to wipe out most of its losses for 2026 thanks to Wednesday’s gains.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
I use my sleeve to wipe hellhound slobber off my face.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
The FDA later identified in testing that the baby wipes were contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia and Burkholderia gladioli, bacterias commonly found in soil and water, in product samples tested by the FDA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
The wipes were sold at Target stores nationwide and online on the store website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
“Those at the top of the wealth distribution can absorb long-term-care costs without substantial losses, but for most Americans, the burden of paying for care wipes out decades of savings and home equity.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is accepting nonperishable and household items such as boxed pasta, baby wipes and laundry detergent to distribute to workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
She nods and wipes sauce from the corner of her mouth with her thumb.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Later, a presidential pardon wiped his record clean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
While many people think that the city’s population was wiped out, the vast majority actually escaped and modern research has found the names and details of hundreds of survivors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The asteroid strike that created it is widely associated with the extinction event that wiped out all nonavian dinosaurs and many other species.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
I put my knife and fork together, wiped my mouth with my serviette and said, ‘Please may I leave the table?’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
She noted inflation “is wiping out wage gains for many. Grocery prices also continue to rise. But the picture did look slightly better in June than in April or May.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“The exciting part is that this generation is not about wiping the slate clean, but about beginning a new slate,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
"No matter how much we wiped her body down, her fever didn't come down. The doctors just kept coming and saying, 'keep wiping her body,'" Akhter says.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Shares were down 4.4% in European early morning trade, wiping out most of the stock’s gains this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Will I see you again?” said Brightbill, wiping his eyes.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
