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accidental erasure of the tape
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This weird erasure of Kobe Bryant's time as the best basketball player on the planet is kind of odd.
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Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
What had once felt like discipline started to feel more like self-erasure.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 13 May 2026
The hard work is going to be undoing centuries of religious, epistemic, political, and cultural erasure, and that’s up to humans.
—Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
In the nation’s fastest-gentrifying city, Black DC refuses quiet erasure.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
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Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
What had once felt like discipline started to feel more like self-erasure.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 13 May 2026
The hard work is going to be undoing centuries of religious, epistemic, political, and cultural erasure, and that’s up to humans.
—Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
In the nation’s fastest-gentrifying city, Black DC refuses quiet erasure.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 20 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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