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accidental erasure of the tape
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The first wave of this assault is a strategy of erasure through fiscal starvation.
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Andrew Weinstein, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Because so much about being Black in America is about endurance, the daily negotiation between visibility and erasure, between power and stillness.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
About the work Questlove is doing, Kerry Gordy underscores the importance, and the risk of erasure particularly under the current presidential administration.
—Essence, 14 Oct. 2025
Follows four Armenian women fighting the erasure and ethnic cleansing of their homeland of Artsakh.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Weinstein, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Because so much about being Black in America is about endurance, the daily negotiation between visibility and erasure, between power and stillness.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
About the work Questlove is doing, Kerry Gordy underscores the importance, and the risk of erasure particularly under the current presidential administration.
—Essence, 14 Oct. 2025
Follows four Armenian women fighting the erasure and ethnic cleansing of their homeland of Artsakh.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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