How to Use erasure in a Sentence

erasure

noun

• There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
• Like the erasure that occurs in the media or the marginalised communities pushed to the edges of the city.
  — Margo Gabriel, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Like the erasure that occurs in the media or the marginalized communities pushed to the edges of the city.
  — Margo Gabriel, refinery29.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• That’s an act of rigor, not erasure, writes Times’ Justin Chang.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• On one hand, there is the erasure of our existence and on the other, there is the saviour complex.
  — Lauren "lolo" Spencer, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most of the rest, though, are contemporary challenges to the erasure of Blackness in the West.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
• The other plays look further back, and at other forms of erasure.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The erasure of the text messages was first reported by The Intercept.
  — Farnoush Amiri, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• To many, the collection and use of data is an act of power that can lead to further erasure.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 21 Nov. 2023
• Many Israelis equate these demands to calls for the erasure of the Israeli state, citing Hamas’s own past rhetoric.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• A lot of the famous Mexican scholars in the ‘40s and ‘50s were creating that erasure.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• In the case of Joanna Hiffernan, the traces that are left only make that erasure seem larger and more haunting.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• As a counter to that act of erasure, MN teamed with Onwuachi to create a space centered on transparency.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 21 Nov. 2022
• The drawings retain the traces of Nutt’s erasures, hinting at a satisfaction just out of reach.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Steph Vaessen, a friend interviewed for the documentary, says shame played a role in the erasure of her legacy.
  — Cari Shane, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• Shortly after the online erasure, China had dropped to sixth place.
  — Clarence Leong, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• For many, the loss of the building would be an erasure of her community’s history.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• If anything, this sort of erasure may only increase in speed and frequency in the future.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
• These attempts at erasure help explain our failure to understand and recognize the harms of the past.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The collapse of the cryptocurrency market over the past three days has led to the erasure of $200 billion in market capital.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• In 1901, a judge declared a Miami leader was white: The erasure lingers for his family.
  — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2022
• But just under the surface lies a much darker truth: erasure of harm fosters a world where those evils will multiply.
  — Lauren Baxley, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2022
• This is not a result of the usual oversight or erasure of leaders of color, but instead by design.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2022
• And in America, erasure is a tool poised to preserve oppression.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• This history of erasure that was experienced by a whole lot of people across the planet.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• How much money streamers save through these erasures is unclear.
  — R.j. Rico, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
• To many, the comment reflected the broader whitewashing of the genre, and showed how Balvin had capitalized on that erasure to become a star.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
• Maybe your happiest move is to stand and applaud your generation for helping to reverse the trend of erasure.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• The presence of slavery at the Founding is America’s great stain, but the Revolution was the beginning of its erasure.
  — Charles Hilu, National Review, 4 July 2022
• The terminal illness facing V, the game’s protagonist, is the all-but-certain erasure of their soul.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 27 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024