Examples of erasure in a Sentence
accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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That's without an infusion of new immigration judges or the erasure of due process for many cases.
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
In Wagner’s telling, Bud Dajo also established a template for future American war crimes: gross abuse leading to a cursory investigation, a coverup, impunity, and, finally, erasure.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Medical debt erasure offered another bright spot for financial relief.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
This scenario could be played for eerie tragedy: In the 1959 film On the Beach, Australians go about their ordinary lives while waiting for the fallout of a nuclear war to arrive and complete humanity’s erasure.
—Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
In Wagner’s telling, Bud Dajo also established a template for future American war crimes: gross abuse leading to a cursory investigation, a coverup, impunity, and, finally, erasure.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Medical debt erasure offered another bright spot for financial relief.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
This scenario could be played for eerie tragedy: In the 1959 film On the Beach, Australians go about their ordinary lives while waiting for the fallout of a nuclear war to arrive and complete humanity’s erasure.
—Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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