How to Use erasure in a Sentence

erasure

noun
  • There were many errors and erasures in the typescript.
  • So that would be like an erasure type of model.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Clean lines are well and good, but at some point ease starts to feel like erasure.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 25 Jan. 2016
  • This starts with making trans erasure, and trans hate a thing of the past.
    — Imara Jones, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • The numbers bear out this erasure.
    — Naomi Jackson, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The show — and the use of fat suits — are in themselves an act of erasure.
    — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • There is a lot of erasure and co-option in the culinary world.
    — Marquita K. Harris, Glamour, 29 June 2021
  • What forms that erasure takes will vary from platform to platform.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Rather than being a means of erasure, our art must serve as a bridge to freedom.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The story is more one of quiet erasure.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet there’s one erasure, one non-man, in this episode that was just right, Goldilocks style.
    — Sean T. Collins, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2013
  • The other plays look further back, and at other forms of erasure.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The erasure will not be nearly as successful this time around.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2025
  • What had once felt like discipline started to feel more like self-erasure.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • The frontier myth’s erasure of their lives was no accident.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • For those of us who’ve already lived through that kind of erasure, this moment cuts even deeper.
    — Beatrice Weber, New York Daily News, 8 May 2025
  • 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
  • But must this entail the erasure of such basic categories as boys and girls?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The ritual of cleaning is thus, on some level, a vivid act of erasure.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • To allow people to take from you to the point of self-erasure is a dangerous thing, for you.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Other red flags are alterations, cross-outs or erasures.
    — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The whole thing is then baked, slowly, so the fuel feels more like a gritty pencil erasure.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • That’s an act of rigor, not erasure, writes Times’ Justin Chang.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Below, Andy Bell, the out-and-proud singer of Erasure, shares his.
    — Andy Bell, Billboard, 1 June 2017
  • 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
  • This approach positions self-erasure not just as a sacrifice but as the proof of love.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • The Secret Agent is an act of dual challenge to this erasure.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The erasure of trainers, dad-like or otherwise, in favor of square-toed black leather shoes and new high boots for men.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2019
  • The American lawn is and has always been a landscape of erasure.
    — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021

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