How to Use erasure in a Sentence

erasure

noun

• There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
• If people like that can be left out, that’s an erasure.
  — Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• What happens to this looked-upon boy could be called erasure.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• The success as a poet is measured by the erasure of his personality?
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
• The erasure of Native Americans from popular culture has a long history of its own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• Crediting five largely unknown white women as bravely wrestling with impeachment now that the public and the party as a whole are more firmly behind the idea is flat-out erasure.
  — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 18 Oct. 2019
• Another, from 2012, proposed that this depletion might lead to a long-term erasure, or immune amnesia.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• But another reason Latinos are viewed as outsiders is our erasure from the American consciousness.
  — Julissa Arce, Time, 15 Oct. 2019
• The show — and the use of fat suits — are in themselves an act of erasure.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• This starts with making trans erasure, and trans hate a thing of the past.
  — Imara Jones, CNN, 25 June 2021
• The erasure of Nichols was patently unfair and over the top.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• There is a lot of erasure and co-option in the culinary world.
  — Marquita K. Harris, Glamour, 29 June 2021
• 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
• Reinvention and erasure are two sides of the same coin.
  — Lisa Page, Washington Post, 1 June 2020
• The hope is that the newcomers lead to an evolution of the city, not an erasure of it.
  — Eleni N. Gage, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Jan. 2024
• 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
• To allow people to take from you to the point of self-erasure is a dangerous thing, for you.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• They Fall does its part to correct the erasure of Black cowboys in westerns.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 23 June 2020
• The other plays look further back, and at other forms of erasure.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The second vital piece of the puzzle was the principle of erasure.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• As part of a just Covid recovery, this country needs a jubilee—the mass erasure of debts.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
• 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
• And the series finds a smart way to begin to address the dwarf erasure that occurred in the transition from big to small screen.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• 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
• The cultural erasure of whip-poor-wills mirrors the species’ actual decline.
  — Jared Del Rosso, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• The designer shared an update on the tattoo’s erasure with a photo posted on her Instagram Stories, in which she could be seen holding her hand out as a doctor worked on it.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025