You can remove the selected or unselected nodes; or, the upstream or downstream nodes of a selected node using the marking menus or hotkeys.
In addition, you can also select nodes in the Node Editor and click the button in the toolbar to remove it from the Node Editor graph.
Remove nodes using the node marking menus
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