Forest Whitaker

Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

American Actor

RJ Cyler

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

Tatiana Schlossberg

If human civilization were to be destroyed and its cities wiped off the map, there would be an easy way for future intelligent life-forms to know when the mid-20th century began: plastic.

Melissa Bean

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

American Politician

Ken Loach

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

English Director

Jello Biafra

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

American Musician

Madame de Stael

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

French Writer

Jim Carrey

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Canadian Comedian

Rupert Brooke

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

English Poet

Wendy Williams

I always have my anti-germ-y wipes, always.

American Entertainer

Wipe involves a hand motion; moving a cloth across something often with some pressure.

Physical Action

Wipe is typically used for cleaning or drying a surface or object.

Cleaning Purpose

Wipe implies direct contact with the surface being cleaned.

Surface Contact

Wipe can mean to remove something intangible, like an emotion or idea.

Removal

Wipe suggests total elimination, leaving no trace behind.

Complete Elimination

Wipe can describe total destruction, often by a powerful force.

Destructive Force

Wipe out can mean the complete loss or defeat, especially in a competition.

Complete Loss

In technology, wipe refers to the removal of all data from a device.

Tech Context

Wiping a device is a security step to prevent personal data breaches.

Security Measure

As a noun, a wipe suggests a single, smooth motion for cleaning.

Cleaning Motion

Using wipe as a noun often suggests the action is quick and efficient.

Brief Action

 the instructions for building more HIV viruses lies dormant, sometimes for years. So even if we could wipe out every HIV virus from an infected person's body, one of those T cells could activate and start spreading the virus again. The other major catch is that not everyone in the world has access to the therapies that could save their lives.

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 And you're really trying to make sure you have everything on the ground before it gets wiped from the spacecraft, before it's gone from humanity forever. You want to make sure you have everything. The true exploration isn't something that normal people get to do, right. I've got to explore worlds that have never been seen before.

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 and my life has changed and just how they're telling me how their life was James now my life has changed and this is the greatest thing ever and then at the end I jump to my feet and I clap and I wipe away a tear and then literally three hours later I'm in the lunch line

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 Some of these are helpful predators of plant pests or vital pollinators, so erasing them from agriculture wipes out their benefits, too. Pesticides have improved over time and are currently regulated by strict safety standards,

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 are then passed up through the food chain. And that's how, bit by bit, nurdles accomplish their goal, growing ever more pervasive as they wipe out marine life and reshape the ocean's ecosystems. So, how to break this cycle?

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 What that does is, you start building up the red bloodcell count in your body, which helps you carry oxygen better. Every morning, again, after getting out of that tent, your brain is completely wiped out.

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 It spreads through bodily fluids. When we show each other affection It's learning. It's evolved. It will wipe us out if we don't get ahead of it. Woah. You're going to get us all killed.

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 so deep inside of a body, the mother builds a tiny ocean. Outside are events of unimaginable violence. Whole new forms of life are being created only to be wiped away.

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 It's not hard to imagine a world where at any given moment, you and everyone you know could be wiped out without warning at the push of a button.

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 were caused by cataclysmic volcanic eruptions it's not the lava or ash that wiped out life but an invisible gas released by