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accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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The Cost Of Erasure Bisexual erasure can be distressing for many who identify as such.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Reyes’ remarks highlighted the ongoing erasure of intersex people from the national firestorm over trans rights, even though laws targeting trans people frequently harm intersex people at the same time.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 20 Mar. 2025
This makes the common comparisons of her work to Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko problematic, risking erasure of the deep heritage that inspired her work.
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If my hometown remains in Russian hands, along with other Ukrainian territories currently under Kremlin control, the erasure of our culture will continue, and with each passing year, Ukrainian identity will attenuate and vanish.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Reyes’ remarks highlighted the ongoing erasure of intersex people from the national firestorm over trans rights, even though laws targeting trans people frequently harm intersex people at the same time.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 20 Mar. 2025
This makes the common comparisons of her work to Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko problematic, risking erasure of the deep heritage that inspired her work.
—Precious Adesina, ARTnews.com, 14 Mar. 2025
If my hometown remains in Russian hands, along with other Ukrainian territories currently under Kremlin control, the erasure of our culture will continue, and with each passing year, Ukrainian identity will attenuate and vanish.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for erasure
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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