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Recent Examples on the WebThat the name is listed in a long string of things — Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Birmingham Jail — is its own kind of erasure.—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024 However, experts say there is more to Beyoncé’s snub than the industry’s longtime erasure of Black artists’ contributions to country music.—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024 The Associated Press, in a piece announcing its adoption of the same rule, also riffed on the color-not-a-person argument, which rings to me, at its most elemental, as an erasure of the role that the Black Power and Black Pride movements played in the shaping of how the people address themselves.—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024 But politicians’ and pundits’ use of transgender people as a scapegoat would not be possible without their historical mistreatment, or outright erasure, in popular culture.—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for erasure
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