as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
an effort to save the species from being erased from this earth
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Recent Examples of erase
For generations, Black and Brown communities have been erased from outdoor narratives, their relationships to land and landscape rendered invisible.
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Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
Stocks reacted little to the release, though Treasury yields erased losses and turned higher.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
The Bills managed to come away with a dramatic 41-40 victory, after erasing a 40-25 deficit in the final five minutes of the game.
—Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
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Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
Stocks reacted little to the release, though Treasury yields erased losses and turned higher.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
The Bills managed to come away with a dramatic 41-40 victory, after erasing a 40-25 deficit in the final five minutes of the game.
—Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erase
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Taking the time to invest in people-centric practices in your workplace and eradicate old norms that are no longer serving us is a critical skill of 21st-century leaders.—
Ellen Whitlock Baker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Now with the barriers to entry to publishing information largely eradicated by social media and technology, such alliances may not be as immediately essential.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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Merz, for his part, would like to abolish this daily working limit while still maintaining the 40-hour workweek, allowing working days to become more flexible.—
Alex Ledsom,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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In 2018, China’s legislature abolished presidential term limits in a ceremonial vote, effectively allowing Xi to rule for life.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Acosta allowed it, and IMG destroyed them.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Later, Howard calls Matt and agrees to cut the sequence but also threatens to destroy him.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Erase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erase. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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