deletion
noun
de·le·tion
di-ˈlē-shən 
dē-
Examples of deletion in a Sentence
one of the deletions from the final cut of the movie turned out to be my one line of dialogue
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But these apps were designed to enable privacy and message deletion—not regulatory compliance or secure team coordination.
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Richard Danforth, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
With those deletions, Gillett has given us our 21st century Rose Mary Stretch.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Send to Incinerator queues up files for irreversible deletion, but doesn’t wipe them out immediately.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
No official reason was given by the Colts for the deletion of the video.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
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Richard Danforth, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
With those deletions, Gillett has given us our 21st century Rose Mary Stretch.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Send to Incinerator queues up files for irreversible deletion, but doesn’t wipe them out immediately.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
No official reason was given by the Colts for the deletion of the video.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deletion. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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deletion
noun
de·le·tion
di-ˈlē-shən
1
: the absence of a section of genetic material from a gene or chromosome
2
: the mutational process that results in a deletion
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