Definition of erasure
:an act or instance of erasing
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The removal of historical monuments is not an erasure of past wrongs.
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In his view, an early step in that direction is the erasure of white history.
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Such alteration represents an erasure of history, which is entirely inappropriate at a university.
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Another popular strain of argument is that getting rid of the memorials is an affront to national memory — an erasure of important American history.
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Our history of exclusion and erasure of people with disabilities in the church goes back to biblical times.
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Roe v. Wade was bad enough, but this was an abdication, an erasure even, of our essential humanity.
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Or the erasure of a particularly important piece of space data from a space database?
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Climate change has become the day-to-day struggle for this tiny nation -- an island nation that faces erasure should the problem remain uncurbed.
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First Known Use of erasure
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