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Netanyahu, his top officials and the Israel Defense Forces have made clear some of their war goals -- the destruction of Iran's nuclear program plus the erasure of the country's ballistic missile arsenal.
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David Brennan, ABC News, 19 June 2025
For others, however, these types of procedures are interpreted as erasure that ultimately delegitimizes disabled bodies.
—Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Presumably a runaway, Carol’s disappearance earned her family scorn and erasure.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
In Mississippi, my Jewishness is not threatened by a violent extinction, as Levi experienced, but it is threatened, nonetheless, by an erasure due to invisibility and ignorance.
—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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David Brennan, ABC News, 19 June 2025
For others, however, these types of procedures are interpreted as erasure that ultimately delegitimizes disabled bodies.
—Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Presumably a runaway, Carol’s disappearance earned her family scorn and erasure.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
In Mississippi, my Jewishness is not threatened by a violent extinction, as Levi experienced, but it is threatened, nonetheless, by an erasure due to invisibility and ignorance.
—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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