erasure
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On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
At the lows of this latest bear market, bitcoin had seen the erasure of more than 50% of its value compared with its October 2025 record high above $126,000.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The arrival of the state-of-the-art facility and erasure of a field that featured the name of Kennedy, according to a complaint obtained by The Times, has caused him “reputational harm,” “embarrassment” and “humiliation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But each click would be its own small act of conscious erasure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
“Peña, Robert. Memory erasure: fail. Reprogram: fail. Purged 10-28-2277.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
In his book, Mr. Gibbs focuses on problematic erasures and distortions that occur in a musicology based on European tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The erasures aren’t perfect, and aren’t meant to be.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
How much money streamers save through these erasures is unclear.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
The canvases aren’t much artistically, with Basquiat’s frequent deft erasures of Warhol’s one-dimensional commercial iconography their most intriguing feature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
He got stuck on the next word, because it had too many scratch-outs and erasures.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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