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Erasures reinforce the fact that there is true human effort behind the adventures of this larger-than-life hero.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2017

Erasures alone only indicate certain types of misconduct, as when answers are changed after a test.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2010

But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with such grave worldly consequences as The Case of the Strange Erasures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Erasures in parchments produce prominences on the opposite side of the sheet.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell

Erasures had to be made with a knife.

From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Haight, Canniff