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A credit-card bill that could dent banks’ profits and erode Visa’s V 0.81%increase; up pointing triangle and Mastercard’s MA 0.82%increase; up pointing triangle dominance has a new champion, and he sits in the Oval Office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But studies show AI text detectors are often unreliable, generating false positives that can erode trust between instructors and students and forcing teachers to devise innovative methods to detect cheating and evaluate assignments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Women's Aid chief executive Farah Nazeer meanwhile said the scheme could further erode "incredibly low" trust in the criminal justice system, meaning "even greater numbers of women and children may be left without protection".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Make sure there’s an inflation rider — inflation over 30 years could erode the value of your policy if you don’t have one in place — and that the policy covers dementia.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

And with all the cold-weather rowing interspersed with days when they couldn’t row at all, the boys’ morale began to erode.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

She wrote a series of articles about the problem of loneliness among older people, which she described as "a creeping enemy which erodes confidence."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“As tides change and sand erodes over time, it is common for military ordnance to reveal itself at this location,” the post stated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

One is mechanical stress, in which repeated contact with water droplets creates friction that slowly erodes a coating or causes pieces of it to peel away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

As the icebergs drift, the seawater erodes them from below, until the berg abruptly topples over and continues its journey upside down.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

She said restructurings were necessary as companies adapt to changing consumption patterns, which have eroded the more lucrative TV economics of yesteryear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Already this year, multiple counties and towns have declared local emergencies as a spell of powerful tropical storms from the Pacific generated high surf that eroded local beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Storm surf generated by Hurricane Marie and runoff from a storm drain outfall eroded a large portion of the festival site," said a statement from the city of Santa Monica.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

At the Old Bailey last year, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said Gill had abused his position and had eroded "public confidence in democracy".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The region’s transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

But meanwhile, the financial pressures are eroding a prized segment of the city’s housing stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Already this year, multiple counties have declared local emergencies as a spell of powerful, tropical storms from the Pacific sent high surf to Southern California, eroding local beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Normally, rising energy prices could hurt the consumer by eroding inflation-adjusted earnings, but “what’s swamped that is the wealth effect that is coming from the equity market,” said Pathak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

But I said "eroding market" because I decided that I wanted to play the opposite game.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan