wipe

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That’s true to an extent — ACV premiums are 10% to 20% cheaper than replacement-cost value premiums according to some estimates — but the out-of-pocket costs after a storm can easily wipe out any savings.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026

Sunrun is likely to wipe out most of its losses for 2026 thanks to Wednesday’s gains.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

Minutes into the climb, the plebes roll their T-shirts up and throw them, like emcees at a ball game, toward the base of the monument, where other midshipmen use them to wipe off the grease.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

It is the manutergium, the cloth the new priest uses to wipe the sacred chrism oil from his now-anointed hands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

The losses were sufficient to wipe out not only the bonds Michael Burry had bet against but also a lot of the more highly rated ones in the same tower.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis