How to Use erasure in a Sentence

erasure

noun

• There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
• One way this erasure happens is through racial misclassification, Echo-Hawk says.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 24 Sep. 2020
• The Justice Department filed a brief asking for the wholesale erasure of the law as recently as June.
  — Margot Sanger-Katz New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• Typically, Latinx people are presented as white-adjacent, which has led to the erasure of anyone who does not fit that narrow mold.
  — Johanna Ferreira, Allure, 18 Sep. 2020
• Due to the erasure of Charrúas in Uruguay, little is known about our cultural traditions or ancestral lifestyle.
  — Lola Méndez, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• The point is to come to grips with the ways in which cultural erasure was attempted, or how culture and foods were co-opted, appropriated and commercialized.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Historical erasure is not limited to the South, a fact the event on Saturday underlined.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• The museum will stand in defiance of centuries of Black South Carolinians’ erasure from the historic record.
  — Dasia Moore, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2020
• But the benefits of sensitivity might be easier to appreciate now that they are threatened with political erasure.
  — Beth Blum, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2020
• Unfortunately, the erasure of these generational histories and clinical cases in the diaspora make this hard to study.
  — Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sebald may not have remembered that the movie amounted to a further erasure of the Jews.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• Naturists insist that public nudity—exposing oneself not only to others but to sun, air, sand, and sky—yields a range of benefits, from body acceptance to class erasure.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024