erasure

Example Sentences

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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

Houda Fonone, a Moroccan model and content creator who advocates for more authentic representations of black women, says the trend is about "erasure".

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings combine Eurocentric artistic traditions with African diasporic cosmologies as a way to course-correct the historical erasure of Black images from classical narratives.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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

So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann