- present participle of erase.
erasing
Example Sentences
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If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Typically, “the Court’s cases neither name nor quote the disfranchised, erasing their voices from law’s past.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Each generation reinvented the farm without erasing its history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Inflation is so high that it’s erasing all wage gains,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote on X. “This isn’t just ‘bad vibes’ about the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
