wipe

Example Sentences

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“When he left baseball suddenly, I knew something was wrong,” Bean’s mother, Linda Kovac, said Friday, pausing to wipe away tears.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

I had to pause momentarily while writing this paragraph just to wipe a tear from the corner of my eye.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

“You’re losing to the house if you’re not paying your balance off,” Henderson said, as the interest charges will wipe out any value the points provide.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

The three-year-old company is jumping into an AI arms race that has the potential to wipe out jobs across Wall Street while possibly supercharging others.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 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