How to Use erasure in a Sentence

erasure

noun

• There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
• The show — and the use of fat suits — are in themselves an act of erasure.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• This starts with making trans erasure, and trans hate a thing of the past.
  — Imara Jones, CNN, 25 June 2021
• The erasure of Nichols was patently unfair and over the top.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• There is a lot of erasure and co-option in the culinary world.
  — Marquita K. Harris, Glamour, 29 June 2021
• Like the erasure that occurs in the media or the marginalised communities pushed to the edges of the city.
  — Margo Gabriel, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• The hope is that the newcomers lead to an evolution of the city, not an erasure of it.
  — Eleni N. Gage, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Jan. 2024
• Like the erasure that occurs in the media or the marginalized communities pushed to the edges of the city.
  — Margo Gabriel, refinery29.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• That’s an act of rigor, not erasure, writes Times’ Justin Chang.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• On one hand, there is the erasure of our existence and on the other, there is the saviour complex.
  — Lauren "lolo" Spencer, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most of the rest, though, are contemporary challenges to the erasure of Blackness in the West.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
• To allow people to take from you to the point of self-erasure is a dangerous thing, for you.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• They Fall does its part to correct the erasure of Black cowboys in westerns.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 23 June 2020
• The other plays look further back, and at other forms of erasure.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The second vital piece of the puzzle was the principle of erasure.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• As part of a just Covid recovery, this country needs a jubilee—the mass erasure of debts.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
• The erasure of the text messages was first reported by The Intercept.
  — Farnoush Amiri, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• To many, the collection and use of data is an act of power that can lead to further erasure.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 21 Nov. 2023
• And the series finds a smart way to begin to address the dwarf erasure that occurred in the transition from big to small screen.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• Many Israelis equate these demands to calls for the erasure of the Israeli state, citing Hamas’s own past rhetoric.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Sebald may not have remembered that the movie amounted to a further erasure of the Jews.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• The American lawn is and has always been a landscape of erasure.
  — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Black and brown history has always been subject to erasure in the US.
  — Clay Cane, CNN, 6 July 2021
• A lot of the famous Mexican scholars in the ‘40s and ‘50s were creating that erasure.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• For some, like Ray Givens, these are not just simple omissions, but active acts of erasure.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 23 Sep. 2021
• For Black women on the darker side of the spectrum, that erasure is personal.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• In the case of Joanna Hiffernan, the traces that are left only make that erasure seem larger and more haunting.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• As a counter to that act of erasure, MN teamed with Onwuachi to create a space centered on transparency.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 21 Nov. 2022
• But as erasure of the species from horror suggest, broader cultural familiarity with whip-poor-wills has atrophied.
  — Jared Del Rosso, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• Naturists insist that public nudity—exposing oneself not only to others but to sun, air, sand, and sky—yields a range of benefits, from body acceptance to class erasure.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024