How to Use deletion in a Sentence

deletion

noun
  • Secure deletion is no longer present.
    — PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That moves data to your phone and triggers the cloud deletion.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • One of the most striking deletions altered an off switch in the human genome.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Check out my story on Drive’s deletion bug here for more details.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Second, deletion should be easy and thorough.
    — Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Users are able to delete a post after sharing, but just one deletion is allowed per day.
    — Wired, 26 July 2022
  • So, the researchers looked at where these hox genes were active in fish with and without the deletion.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • An index deletion may lead to selling by investors who have no view on value.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Facebook will offer a number of ways to find and select posts for deletion.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 2 June 2020
  • As long as you are signed into the account in question it is being used and safe from deletion.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • About the only real compromise here is the deletion of the rear seats.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Ivey denied having any role in any of the posts or their subsequent deletions.
    — Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
  • The male-tolerant strain has a deletion that cuts off part of this unknown region.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
  • First, account deletion is a protest at both companies and their abuse of data.
    — Nicole Kobie, Teen Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
  • My favorite Porsche option is the deletion of the rear badge, which costs nothing!
    — Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Allow for the easy download, transfer, and deletion of any data.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
  • On the moon, there’s been little deletion of the geologic record.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
  • How long is student data stored, and can parents request deletion?
    — The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There won’t be universal agreement on that, the same way there wasn’t agreement on the non-deletion of the tweet.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The company will then send an an email asking users to confirm the deletion request.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2025
  • No official reason was given by the Colts for the deletion of the video.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
  • The report also makes no mention of Mueller playing any role in the deletion of texts.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
  • As for duplicates, by default, the app marks all but one of each duplicate set for deletion.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • Enter your email address to confirm deletion.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Read more about the mass content deletion on Friday and how to protect your account here.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Or the other way around things could get inserted in, or insertions and deletions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The company has said the deletions were not made in response to Miller’s legal claim.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Some of the deletions have been to correct misspellings or remove words, while others have been to add more context.
    — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
  • The deletion of those podcasts with the N-word proves the distinction doesn’t matter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Owens at first suggested the deletion of the episodes was a mistake or the result of a website update.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2021

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