Examples of erasure in a Sentence
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
Her platinum-blond hair, spurs, turquoise, and fringe are helping to course-correct the erasure of Black and brown people in country culture.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
Image Over the course of 30 years, Gallagher has carefully attended to her own visual language, deploying processes such as collage, erasure, extraction, reconstruction and revision to create works that blend elements of history, humor and horror.
—Kadish Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
That Spook and Bamboozled faced extreme criticism — and in the case of Dixon’s film, near erasure — speaks to the militant veracity of these satires.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
That is a direct erasure of an entire population, and Palestinian identity is tied to our land.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
But the film also got mixed reactions for its erasure of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese victims of Oppenheimer’s creation.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
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
It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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1734, in the meaning defined above
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