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Recent Examples of erase 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, 24 May 2025 One of the themes of the film itself is that Vietnamese voices have been erased from the telling of this. Allen Salkin, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025 The next image creates dissonance and worry: Will the names be erased? James Dubinsky, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2025 Tales made the rooms lighter and noticeably more contemporary than before, without erasing the Mediterranean design influences that lend it its signature Sicilian charm. Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for erase
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  • Princess Eugenie is also the founder of The Anti-Slavery Collective, which endeavors to eradicate modern slavery, and helped establish Key to Freedom, a social enterprise initiative facilitating a route to market for products made by survivors of trafficking at Women’s Interlink Foundation.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • Yeast overgrowth can often be eradicated with one dose of an oral tablet called fluconazole (Diflucan).
    Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
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  • Currently 20 states have passed laws that would abolish clock changes if they are given permission to do so by the federal government.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • Athletic Bilbao’s Estadio de San Mamés was full of tears of joy from Tottenham fans clad in white and players alike at the full-time whistle as the team abolished the reputation for not finishing big matches.
    David Close, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
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  • Another key feature of algae oil is its high smoke point of 535 degrees—the temperature at which oil begins to break down, release dangerous chemicals, and destroy its nutrients.
    Jonathan Purtell, Verywell Health, 27 May 2025
  • During the week of my embed, the Russian military identified and destroyed a few of the Vampire pilots’ positions.
    Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025

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“Erase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erase. Accessed 30 May. 2025.

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