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accidental erasure of the tape
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The series explores the legacy of Black cowboys while underscoring their erasure in cowboy culture and American history.
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Caché McClay, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2025
But Yazidis, Ahmadis, Uyghurs and other non-Christians suffer the same erasure.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
While supporters champion these changes as a restoration of India’s pre-Islamic heritage, critics condemn them as a deliberate erasure of the country’s pluralistic history.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
The public embrace of Baldwin as the scribe of the civil-rights movement has involved a kind of willful amnesia regarding his queerness, and, in turn, an erasure of the muses—romantic and platonic—who inspired him.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
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Caché McClay, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2025
But Yazidis, Ahmadis, Uyghurs and other non-Christians suffer the same erasure.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
While supporters champion these changes as a restoration of India’s pre-Islamic heritage, critics condemn them as a deliberate erasure of the country’s pluralistic history.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
The public embrace of Baldwin as the scribe of the civil-rights movement has involved a kind of willful amnesia regarding his queerness, and, in turn, an erasure of the muses—romantic and platonic—who inspired him.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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