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accidental erasure of the tape
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The Borg represent our fear of erasure, of disappearing into a vast, flat, and uncaring bureaucracy, and are one of modern fiction's most deft updates to the existential horror first popularized in the fiction of Franz Kafka.
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Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The trailer continues through a selection of archival photos and videos, tracing the presence and subsequent erasure of Black people from cowboy culture.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Using his family story, history and cultural legend, Noisecat grapples with the trauma, erasure and colonization of North America’s First Peoples.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Prepare for a future repayment plan switch Once PAYE and ICR are phased out, borrowers in those plans who haven’t yet become eligible for debt erasure will need to switch to a repayment plan that still offers loan cancellation.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
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Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The trailer continues through a selection of archival photos and videos, tracing the presence and subsequent erasure of Black people from cowboy culture.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Using his family story, history and cultural legend, Noisecat grapples with the trauma, erasure and colonization of North America’s First Peoples.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Prepare for a future repayment plan switch Once PAYE and ICR are phased out, borrowers in those plans who haven’t yet become eligible for debt erasure will need to switch to a repayment plan that still offers loan cancellation.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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