Thesaurus results for DELETE

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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it the teacher deleted the last line of the student's essay, wisely sensing that it lessened the impact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 If deleting your account takes an email to support, a waiting period and a follow-up, that friction is a design choice. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Though the boxes sometimes pick up human chatter, all human sounds are redacted then deleted for privacy before the audio is sent through AI models. — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 More than 130 million voters were deleted during the revision but the Election Commission has denied favoring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol. — Reuters, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 Talk about meeting The Challenge — the latest challenge to the Swedish version of the popular reality-TV show has met its match by way of an apparent AI agent, which is being blamed for deleting its entire new season. — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for delete

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Classes, activities and athletic events across Bend-La Pine Schools are canceled tomorrow, the district announced.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Ossoff last year also pressed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin for canceling public health and environmental grants.

— Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cancel

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Credit stress at CoreWeave, concerns over corporate AI spending and another hot inflation report erased more than $1 trillion from 20 of the world's largest AI and semiconductor stocks this week.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
His apprehension turned into anger when the city’s Department of Transportation erased the DIY crosswalks two months later.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of erase

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The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
While no service can promise to remove all your data from the internet, a data removal service can monitor and automate the process of removing your information from hundreds of sites continuously over a longer period.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of remove

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But on the television broadcast that aired on Saturday, Antonia’s T-shirt had been censored, appearing to be all white.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Faith, clearly, doesn’t gravitate to artists who mute or censor themselves (tourmate Musgraves is another big inspiration).

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026

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