Examples of erasure in a Sentence
accidental erasure of the tape
There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
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There is the bitter irony to consider that this literary erasure was done by the man who owns the largest bookselling entity on earth.
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Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Niceness has been misunderstood because it’s been confused with self-erasure.
—Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
That longstanding erasure has made Natchez a less commercially friendly prospect to younger generations of visitors.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Then, amid the pandemic, my research on cultural destruction was suddenly everywhere as Azerbaijan launched a war in our ancestral homeland—fought in the shadow of erasures like Djulfa.
—Simon Maghakyan, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
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Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Niceness has been misunderstood because it’s been confused with self-erasure.
—Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
That longstanding erasure has made Natchez a less commercially friendly prospect to younger generations of visitors.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Then, amid the pandemic, my research on cultural destruction was suddenly everywhere as Azerbaijan launched a war in our ancestral homeland—fought in the shadow of erasures like Djulfa.
—Simon Maghakyan, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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