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The illusion that something is gone, when it has merely stopped being polite about its location.
means To remove or erase data, text, or files so they no longer appear or function.
from From Latin deletus, past participle of delere, to wipe out or destroy — the same root that flattened cities, now flattening typos.
Not goneDeleted files often persist until overwritten later.
Key historyThe Delete key once meant forward-erase, not backspace.
Roman muscleCousin to deleting Carthage from existence entirely.