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erase

[ih-reys] / ɪˈreɪs /


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"What did you do? You lost a bet or what? Block me and erase my number," Ibrahimovic said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

That persistence is an important challenge because weight loss does not necessarily erase all of obesity's long-term effects on the immune system.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

The medications’ power to erase feelings of hunger and satiation threatens to upend the industry’s model for growth, where success has often meant selling as much food as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

I kind of wish I could erase him.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

“She erases a lot of mistakes out there,” Ogwumike said.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 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 faceless quality of the Net erases the problems geeks face in the "real" world of image, fashion, communication skills, etc.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

After a long, painful downdraft that erased more some $2.2 trillion in value, cryptocurrencies — and, notably, bitcoin — have come roaring back this week.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

CXMT’s reported expansion plans initially spooked Micron investors, but the company’s shares then erased their intraday losses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The drastic fall erased more than $1 trillion in market value from the company, though it still retains a $1.6-trillion market cap.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 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

I erased my comment, relieved that I’d only written it in pencil.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Fearing that authorities were actively erasing culpability, the victim's family appealed for help.

From BBC Aug. 23, 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

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

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

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

“What else do you think? You want to say the line, the striking line, the erasing line?”

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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