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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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Below, Andy Bell, the out-and-proud singer of Erasure, shares his.
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The idea ‘black lives matter’ is an ethical demand calling for an end to the erasure of black lives and presence by systems of racist power anchored in a history of white supremacy.
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Yet there’s one erasure, one non-man, in this episode that was just right, Goldilocks style.
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First Known Use of erasure
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playDefinition of erasure for English Language Learners
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: an act of erasing something ( chiefly US )
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