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delete

[dih-leet] / dɪˈlit /


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Kill the convenience: Delete any one-click shopping apps or saved credit-card information on your phone.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

The trust and safety employee's blunt advice to parents with children using TikTok is: "Delete it, keep them as far away as possible from the app for as long as possible. "

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Delete the memories that are inaccurate or outdated, or which you feel uncomfortable with the AI retaining.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Judging from the grammatically tortured sentences left behind, this culling was probably conducted by code; it looks as though someone ran a slightly more complicated version of Find + Delete across the site.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2025

“Maybe you just deleted something by mistake. Did you check in the Delete file?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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