erasure

Example Sentences

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Wyn Wiley, who performs as Pattie Gonia, said the firm was threatening "the erasure of my name, my advocacy, my community" and the livelihoods of those employed by the drag queen and climate activist.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Yet Mr. Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric about Iran’s civilizational erasure came the same day he engaged in relaxed and jokey conversation with the Artemis astronauts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Cabinet officials come and go, but the near-immediate removal of Bondi’s image signaled something closer to erasure than transition, a rapid closing of ranks inside a department that had already been under pressure.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

"New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history," he wrote on X.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

From "1984" by George Orwell