erasure
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Yet on the land and in the imagination, the ancient and the mystical resist complete erasure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities," beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
“Peña, Robert. Memory erasure: fail. Reprogram: fail. Purged 10-28-2277.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
Gonzales-Day, through applying deft erasures, vivifies the wild and wicked record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
How much money streamers save through these erasures is unclear.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
If you can solve that one, you’re probably the right kind of audience for “Textplay,” a witty two-character, no-actor sketch, conducted entirely in the world’s latest lingua franca, complete with emojis, emoticons, ellipses and erasures.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Three drafts later, most of the scratch-outs and erasures eliminated, she finally put her pencil back in the box.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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