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accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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Inside that folder was information not just about us but about the colonial history of erasure that every other First Nations family faces.
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Tanya Talaga
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
More recently, reforms like charter school expansion and school choice have only deepened the erasure.
—Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Near the end of his life, the king ordered an erasure of Hatshepsut’s pharaonic legacy: Her statues were broken and her name was removed from Egypt’s official list of kings.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Finding Gale’s writings changed the nature of my argument by raising the question of whether her erasure from literary history was precisely because of her politics.
—Deborah Williams
july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
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Tanya Talaga
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
More recently, reforms like charter school expansion and school choice have only deepened the erasure.
—Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Near the end of his life, the king ordered an erasure of Hatshepsut’s pharaonic legacy: Her statues were broken and her name was removed from Egypt’s official list of kings.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Finding Gale’s writings changed the nature of my argument by raising the question of whether her erasure from literary history was precisely because of her politics.
—Deborah Williams
july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
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 31 Jul. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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