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erase

[ih-reys] / ɪˈreɪs /


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I cannot erase the image of that scorched cell from my mind.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

That disruption can scatter electrons and erase some of the performance gains engineers are trying to achieve.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

We have literally and metaphorically tried to erase our actual history in favor of a mythical past that never existed — even in bad LSD trips.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

The decline could erase $460 billion from the company’s market capitalization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

But if you write words and they don’t come out the way you want them to, you can erase them and start over.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

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

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

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

“It’s like if you label it with that word, it erases all the good.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

U.S. stocks on Friday closed out a brutal month that erased a chunk of the summer’s gains in technology names.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

A spell has erased Peter Parker from the world’s memory — the price of undoing the public exposure of his identity — leaving him a stranger to his best friend, Ned, and to MJ.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Market volatility has erased some funds’ value with sickening speed—most famously 2018’s “Volmageddon.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

I liked what I had done so far, having made sure that I’d penciled it in first so all mistakes could be erased before I painted it.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Both stocks and bonds saw wild swings, while the dollar finished 0.5% lower — more than erasing all of its gains from earlier in the month, based on the performance of the ICE U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

But erasing the memory of Suu Kyi's father is unlikely.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

“Mom, double Is in Halloween,” Lori said, erasing Mom’s writing and penciling in the changes.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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