erasure

Example Sentences

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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

Henry Giroux, social theorist and author of “Assassins of Memory,” a book that examines the politics of erasure, was not surprised.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 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

The hearing concluded that erasure from the medical register was the only suitable option, given that her behaviour was "fundamentally incompatible with her continued registration as a doctor."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 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