as in to cancel
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
the teacher deleted the last line of the student's essay, wisely sensing that it lessened the impact
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Recent Examples of delete
This profile appears to have since been deleted.
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Spotify Blend playlist removed; iMessage thread deleted.
—Grace Samuel, Refinery29, 24 Sep. 2025
TikTok deal reached Looks like Americans won’t have to worry about deleting the TikTok app off their phone.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
The show played out in three acts, with bursts of color igniting one after another along the ridge, tracing the mountain’s outline in rainbow-like waves, according to videos that have since been deleted.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Spotify Blend playlist removed; iMessage thread deleted.
—Grace Samuel, Refinery29, 24 Sep. 2025
TikTok deal reached Looks like Americans won’t have to worry about deleting the TikTok app off their phone.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
The show played out in three acts, with bursts of color igniting one after another along the ridge, tracing the mountain’s outline in rainbow-like waves, according to videos that have since been deleted.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
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This simple transmitter plugs into the headphone jack on your screen and connects to your favorite noise-canceling headphones to drown out the sounds of other passengers while allowing for hours of entertainment with your own personal earbuds.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
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While airlines don't yet have travel advisories for travel to and from Phoenix, airlines generally rebook passengers on the next available flight at no additional cost when a flight is canceled or delayed.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Those Padres quickly erased a one-run deficit and eventually won on a walk-off home run by Steve Garvey that remains perhaps the franchise’s greatest moment.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Officials urge residents to take precautions like using insect repellent and removing standing water.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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Yet, Barclays’ Venkateshwar expects the environment will likely get more difficult for the wireless carrier in the future, as the entire sector deals with elevated churn — the pace at which customers are added and removed.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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There is no right to censor open forum comments — if a speaker says things that expose them to liability, that is not the board’s responsibility.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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Within the self-censoring limits of the genre, Eisgruber has sensible things to say, maybe too sensible.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delete. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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