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- verb Present participle of
erase .
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Examples
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President Obama created an 18-member fiscal commission Thursday charged with coming up with ideas to begin erasing $14.3 trillion in government red ink.
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The Penguins didn't have it wrapped up until Lidstrom's shot at the buzzer hit a diving Marc-Andre Fleury, the Pittsburgh goalie who made 23 saves in erasing memories of a 5-0 loss in Game 5 a week ago.
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Yeah, I really do believe that the Demorats had a role in erasing the deficit, and that those dastardly, inhumane and icky conservative Republicans of 1994 aren't the ones that put the brakes on the allmighty Clinton's spending.
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If the current GATT negotiations do not succeed in erasing the worst effects of the threatened trade discrimination by Western Europe, there might be disastrous consequences for the Free World.
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My resentment of her behavior has much assisted me in erasing her image from my breast.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797
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For the life of me I cannot see why we who claim to be people of practical common sense should forget that it was the Germans of the last war who succeeded in erasing a good many French and Belgian cities, who shelled open towns, who first used poison gas -- as you will recall, against our own Canadian boys at Ypres -- that it was Germans who sank hospital and passenger ships without warning and otherwise gloried in a war of frightfulness.
Embattled Britain 1941
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It is a viciously malignant book, with an unmistakable note of Now Im out of your reach I can say what I like about you running all through it, and apart from a general distortion it contains some quite definite and probably intentional misrepresentation: as, for instance, when Conrad is declared to be no less imperialist than Kipling, and D.H. Lawrence is described as writing bare-bodied pornography and as having succeeded in erasing all clues to his proletarian originas though Lawrence had been a pork-butcher climbing into the House of Lords!
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We look for ways to move forward and they’re only interested in erasing us.
Think Progress » Young America’s Foundation Student Conference Bans Progressive Reporters 2006
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He felt the song to be "poignant poetry about breaking up", and the notion of erasing came to click as a concept for the video.
Abe Schwartz: Javier Grillo-Marxuach Makes Canon 5D Magic Abe Schwartz 2011
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As for the idea of erasing history, we face some of the same issues in the US as well.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Sakai Noriko and “Japanese” Morality 2009
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