(n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Example Sentences:
(1) As marginalized people, we have always faced erasure: either our story is never told, or it is told by everyone but us.
(2) The possibility remains, however, that the impairment seen in these tasks reflects the requirement for erasure of information from previous trials within each daily session, rather than the duration of the retention interval.
(3) A: Facebook didn't have a comment on Tuesday, but it does already have mechanisms that let people remove data, and sources there say it "already complies with the right to erasure set out in certain data protection legislation".
(4) In contrast, it is normal in all aspects of growth, in the sequence of morphogenetic stages, in spore formation, in the capacity to rapidly recapitulate morphogenesis, and in the erasure event and subsequent program of dedifferentiation.
(5) The erasure of indigenous people explains why Dakota Access was rerouted from upstream of Bismarck south to Standing Rock.
(6) The ‘erasure’ of women killed by police Facebook Twitter Pinterest A #BlackLivesMatter protest marches through the posh city of Beverly Hills.
(7) When cAMP is added after the erasure event, it causes a low, transient increase in the level of 16G1 RNA.
(8) Those who choose to view Wearing’s sculpture as championing the erasure of fathers and broken Britain miss the point.
(9) But it cautions: "Our concern is about how difficult (or impossible) this may be to achieve in practice and how it could lead individuals to believe falsely that they can achieve the absolute erasure of information about them.
(10) This is going to sound quite appalling, but nobody in my circle of friends in 1986 would have admitted liking Erasure, or would have been seen dead going out and buying a Boy George CD.
(11) The failure to highlight and demand accountability for the countless black women killed by police over the past two decades,” the report observes, “leaves black women unnamed and thus under-protected in the face of their continued vulnerability to racialized police violence.” A lawyer for Anderson’s family, David Malik, who has been involved in many Ohio cases involving police violence, told the Guardian that in his experience the erasure of those stories was typical.
(12) "The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
(13) Human figure drawings were scored on seven characteristics popularly attributed to juvenile delinquents, i.e., head size, shading, and three indicators of emotional conflict, i.e., transparencies, omissions, and erasures.
(14) A rapid method of identification by using computerized videotape erasure of mutilating injuries is presented.
(15) The rapid reduction in the level of gp80 transcript which can be effected by the addition of cAMP prior to the erasure event in wild-type cells is also retained by HI4 cells well after the erasure event.
(16) I mean, at school the girls all went out and bought Erasure without any issue."
(17) "We think the most responsible service providers will offer the right to erasure.
(18) The erasure of the war began in 1972 with the granting of amnesty to the Pakistani army officers who led the killings.
(19) Growth-associated polypeptides begin to be resynthesized and development-associated polypeptides exhibit dramatic decreases in rate of synthesis at different times throughout the first 240 min in erasure medium.
(20) Mortgage worries; a banal sex life; a clutching fear of erasure from cultural and public life; and, as Sawyer puts it in her wonderful book, that sudden desire to change career and become a “midwife-cum-cabbie-stroke-gardener”.
Palimpsest
Definition:
(n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wrote in the memoir Palimpsest that he had more than 1,000 "sexual encounters" – nothing special, he added, compared with the pursuits of such peers as John F Kennedy and Tennessee Williams.
(2) But the way an area has been used over time, both above and below ground, can also be presented as a layered historical palimpsest, which can serve the purposes of archaeological justice and memory – as with ScanLAB’s Living Death Camps project with Forensic Architecture, on two concentration-camp sites in the former Yugoslavia.
(3) His two memoirs – Palimpsest and its sequel, Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – describe friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein.
(4) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
(5) And Vidal more or less admitted it himself, writing in his memoir Palimpsest that he was "attracted to adolescent males".
(6) Among individual phenomena the following are important: in stage I regular contact with the drug (04) and increased tolerance (05), in stage II secret drinking (2) and frequency of palimpsests (7), in stage III signs derived mostly from rationalization and alcohol-centered behaviour and finally in stage IV impaired thinking (33), reduced tolerance (37) and possible ethic degradation (32).
(7) He claimed in his memoir Palimpsest that by the age of 25 he had had more than 1,000 sexual encounters with men and women, tending towards what he called "same-sex sex".
(8) In Palimpsest he recalled finding, "to my surprise", that Kerouac was circumcised.
(9) The man who was recording our podcast in the other room was listening through the wall; he said the word "palimpsest" (I remember it, in my earphone).
(10) Timbuktu is a palimpsest in the sand that proves otherwise.
(11) He published a gossipy but moving memoir, Palimpsest (1995), which cut back and forth between the author's present, mostly in Ravello, and his first four frenetic decades.
(12) Loss of control (8) in the reported form is closer to the onset of development and the frequency of palimpsests (7) develops later, usually is overlaps with prolonged drunkedness (31).
(13) At the onset of development dominates "non-adaptive" drinking evaluated frequently as loss of control and in the more advanced stage the constant incidence of palimpsests causes frequent intoxication and declining tolerance.