Yesterday's price gains virtually erased the losses over the previous three days.

Outsized gains in the first three months virtually erased the losses of 1994.

In the months that followed, the mail-borne anthrax incidents virtually erased her life as a working professional.

Whatever remained of the anticommunist resistance was virtually erased.

"There have been big leads that have been virtually erased."

His five-year parole conditions were so strict they virtually erased all his income from private lessons.

Consumer confidence fell in May to the lowest level since October, virtually erasing post-election optimism.

Thus, vigilance became scientifically and morally hegemonic and internal public spaces were virtually erased.

Although Gould was apparently well known to his own and the next two generations of poets, his reputation was virtually erased in the nineteenth century.

But Mr. Nicholson has virtually erased her lead, moving to within several percentage points of her in the latest polls.