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erase

[ih-rays] / ɪˈreɪs /


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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

Because you can erase a number, and what does it matter?

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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

Millions of crypto investors around the world are sitting on losses as a painful bear market erases trillions of dollars in paper profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

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 number erases all that has gone before, stamps it null and void.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Across the past two trading days, Tesla has erased $221 billion in market capitalization and SpaceX has lost $229 billion in value, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The slide erased $499.8 billion from Alphabet’s market value, the second biggest single-session loss for any company on record.

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

People with scars, birthmarks and medical conditions have told the BBC how AI tools have changed or erased their personal features.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Only last month, Hera had erased his memories to put him among the Roman demigods.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

It also means erasing the construct of Hal’s consciousness that has guided John since his mentor died.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

That would solve her immediate problem of finding her way home but create an even worse one by erasing her recall of her most precious friendship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Now she had the feeling that Elowen had been erasing her memory somehow.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo


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