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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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“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

Instead of firing Attiah, the newspaper could have conducted an investigation and interview with the columnist to understand her posts and could have asked her to delete the comments, Miller Espinosa said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Got to write the sentence and delete it.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

The letter underlined a legal warning made by Uefa that Fifa should not delete or destroy any documents related to the plans.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

I guess she’s all in her feelings because I didn’t delete the song like she told me.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

A police probe last year into a missing data file containing the details of hundreds of maternity cases found it was most likely deleted "intentionally or maliciously".

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

When researchers completely deleted PRX3 from mesothelioma tumor cell lines, mitochondrial function declined, cell growth slowed sharply, and the cancer cells could no longer form tumors in animal experiments.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

After several weeks of this doomscrolling, she deleted all of her social media apps.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

When I deleted the app, I felt a wave of relief.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

“Are you kidding me? I deleted everything. I don’t want no trouble!”

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

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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