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delete

verb

di-ˈlēt

Definition of delete

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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it the teacher deleted the last line of the student's essay, wisely sensing that it lessened the impact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 The only thing that isn’t deleted is the search records, which are public government records. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026 The media newsletter Status on Monday night reported that Weiss praised the story during the network’s daily editorial meeting Monday, and directed that the headline mention El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026 The comment was deleted, and then his wife took to the comments section and posted a strikingly similar message. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026 The content, which has since been deleted from the account, appears to be AI-generated, Facebook users said. — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for delete

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Barca saved money on Joao Cancelo after he and Al Hilal cancelled his contract, but he’ll hardly be paid buttons.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Holiday events, parades and fireworks celebrations were canceled across parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic because of the extreme heat, USA TODAY previously reported.

— Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

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That means the race winner could potentially gain 75 points in a single race on another driver, and that has the potential to erase gaps very quickly.

— Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Trump is moving to strip California’s emissions authority, end tax credits and erase electric vehicle sales mandates, reshaping the national market while leaving the state’s clean-car future tangled in Washington-level uncertainty.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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These details, and whether the car was running the now-obsolete Autopilot or its more advanced successor FSD is impossible to know, because Tesla censored that section of the crash report.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
His work frequently censored by the Israeli government, Mansour developed a vocabulary of symbols that today functions as a language of resistance.

— News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026

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