Definition of erasure
: an act or instance of erasing
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Examples of erasure in a Sentence
accidental erasure of the tape
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Recent Examples of erasure from the Web
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Other works directly grapple with the erasure of a person’s humanity.
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Still, my body could not endure the erasure of my ancestry, of the adventurer in me.
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What has your experience been like dealing with the issue of pansexual erasure?
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That total transformation, the erasure of one mode of being with another via the creation of an instant city, has left its mark on our collective consciousness.
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Sadly, these experiences are also the likely cause of Murray’s erasure from so much of history.
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This history of erasure has loomed large over the Oscars in recent years, and the Academy has attempted to rectify its racial exclusion.
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She's been criticized for not being black enough, for speaking out on the erasure of video vixens and strippers in the #MeToo movement and for being a former exotic dancer herself.
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The whole thing is then baked, slowly, so the fuel feels more like a gritty pencil erasure.
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First Known Use of erasure
1734
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: an act of erasing something ( chiefly US )
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