erase
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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
It was like they just wanted to erase it all and go back to normal.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
“It’s not like the SAT erases those inequities, but it’s not like the SAT adds to those inequities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
“Their vessel leaves a smooth, filigree-edged road on the ocean that vanishes and erases itself,” Enda notices on her voyage, “so that they can never find their way back, even if they want to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
He erases the board slowly, then says, “I could use a helper next period, just this one time.”
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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
While all damage from smoking may not be erased, quitters can add healthy years to the end of their life, which can be just as important to them as how long they live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Calder groped around for his pentomino as his teacher erased the board.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
SpaceX shares were down 8% in early trading Wednesday, erasing most gains made in Tuesday’s session.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Alnylam stock is up 2.4%, erasing some gains after opening up 16%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“There has to be a way to prevent a huge blowup that doesn’t involve forcibly erasing everyone’s memories.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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