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

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