Examples of erasure in a Sentence
accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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This is a rich, complex memoir in which Foo explores her familial roots, the impact of intergenerational trauma in Asian-American immigrant communities, the failures of American healthcare, and the patriarchal erasure of women’s suffering.
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Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Other red flags are alterations, cross-outs or erasures.
—Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
That filmmaker had argued that outsourcing decisions to machine intelligence amounted to a form of self-erasure.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
And the paintings began, in part, as a meditation on erasure—a rebuke, of sorts, to a digital regime that had abandoned writing’s tactility.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Other red flags are alterations, cross-outs or erasures.
—Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
That filmmaker had argued that outsourcing decisions to machine intelligence amounted to a form of self-erasure.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
And the paintings began, in part, as a meditation on erasure—a rebuke, of sorts, to a digital regime that had abandoned writing’s tactility.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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 6 May. 2026.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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