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Cutting prices could erode profit margins, even as the company is operating on a loss due to the billions it is spending to develop and advance its models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Because of how these products are designed, investors who hold them for longer than a day take the risk that “volatility decay” may erode some or all of their winnings, Sotiroff said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

“In addition, such outcomes could weaken Delaware Life’s regulatory relationships and damage its reputation, which could erode its competitive position,” S&P said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He demanded that Meta demonstrate that hiding phone numbers would not "erode digital traceability" and provide "specific safeguards" against financial fraud.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The GAC had reached the conclusion that the intensified test schedule really was placing insupportable pressure on Los Alamos; sooner or later, Oppenheimer feared, the workload would erode the quality of the lab’s product.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

That erodes the purchasing power of the yen and feeds into the inflation problem that the Bank of Japan only recently started raising interest rates to fight.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Every time City Hall fails to do that— potholes that don’t get fixed, streetlights that stay dark, 911 calls that go unanswered — it erodes people’s faith that government can solve problems at all.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

But such heavy commercial appeal erodes all that singularity, leaving queer people to fend for themselves in defining and celebrating their identities, apart from the pinkwashing.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Inflation erodes confidence in the future; the psychic blow of 2008 still reverberates; young voters, especially millennials, remember those days of anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

But the liquid from within bounced on the still water like a violent rainstorm that erodes the land.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

The Saudis also have a mutual defense pact with Pakistan, struck last year to deter attacks in the region as trust in the U.S. security establishment was eroded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

She recalls other witches from folk tales like Baba Yaga, frightening characters but also, she says, “women possessing an innocence that had been eroded over the years by the harshness of life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The surge in sales pushed up prices and eroded affordability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The siege of Gaza "directly undermined reproductive and newborn health", while the collapse of public health programmes "eroded the conditions necessary for a healthy next generation".

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

But like the funeral director and the car salesman and the life- insurance company, the real-estate agent has also seen her advantage eroded by the Internet.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

This misperception carries profound consequences and is currently rippling through our world, eroding trust, deepening isolation and creating a social environment in which empathy is swiftly becoming an atrophied muscle in desperate need of exercise.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

While that may have been good policy in the past since those workers often had an easier time working longer, that gap may be eroding.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Tebas said that the Balogun decision was the "tip of the iceberg" following a series of events which had been "eroding the credibility of Fifa and football in general for many years".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The initiatives appear to be a response to State Farm’s eroding status in the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

“The Empire State Building isn’t eroding anytime soon.”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer