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accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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Kirk was inundated with questions on matters such as demographic erasure and how a true conservative could back multiculturalism.
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
But critics have called out the erasure of the Black origins of African American Language and point out how non-Black Gen Zers are using it without even realizing its cultural significance.
—Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
The frontier myth’s erasure of their lives was no accident.
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Students should be encouraged to think historically, Zavala said, and to approach larger themes of colonization, erasure, power and to reflect on the way movements are shaped and the contradictions that occur within them.
—Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
But critics have called out the erasure of the Black origins of African American Language and point out how non-Black Gen Zers are using it without even realizing its cultural significance.
—Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
The frontier myth’s erasure of their lives was no accident.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Students should be encouraged to think historically, Zavala said, and to approach larger themes of colonization, erasure, power and to reflect on the way movements are shaped and the contradictions that occur within them.
—Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for erasure
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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