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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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
For example, consider a situation where a criminal deleted a database containing financial data from a hard drive and then used software to overwrite the entire hard drive.
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Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Mayor Bass wasn’t the only one deleting texts during the firestorms.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Brennan grilled Wolfe about his use of the Signal app to share encrypted messages with the defense and about his inability to produce communications under a court order because his texts were deleted.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
Wu, who served as a special assistant to Biden for competition and technology policy, took aim at Jean-Pierre in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that has since been deleted.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
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Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Mayor Bass wasn’t the only one deleting texts during the firestorms.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Brennan grilled Wolfe about his use of the Signal app to share encrypted messages with the defense and about his inability to produce communications under a court order because his texts were deleted.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
Wu, who served as a special assistant to Biden for competition and technology policy, took aim at Jean-Pierre in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that has since been deleted.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delete
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All incoming and outgoing flights from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport have been canceled.—
Christina Wilkie,Anniek Bao,Riya Bhattacharjee,
CNBC,
13 June 2025
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Russia initially built for Egypt before Cairo canceled the contract would be delivered to Tehran instead.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Nail polish remover: Use a small amount of nail polish remover on a cotton ball to erase scuffs.—
Maryal Miller Carter,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Awake used an isolated case to discriminate, marginalize, intimidate and erase transgender people and to call for defunding public schools.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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So everybody that's in the United States, and in this case in Puerto Rico, without an immigration status, needs to be removed or deported.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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When Late Night is forced to censor an interview, Deborah and Ava get inadvertently embroiled in controversy.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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Even printing those three words is a good way to start a fight—people will disagree about which, if any of them, should be censored.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delete. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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