efface

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Recent Examples of efface The class of 2020 mural should be restored to good condition and retained in place, not effaced. Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025 In other societies, including those of Latin America, the line between conqueror and conquered has, through language, intermarriage and the exchange of customs and food, been partially effaced. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025 The bonds of mutual political awakening—the sort of togetherness that was once routine, if uneasy, for Firestone—are completely effaced. Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 By killing animals for exhibition and subduing their bodies in such tableaux, taxidermy celebrates the subjugation of nature and colonial exploitation, all while effacing the African labor undergirding some dioramas, as with the mountain gorilla scene. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for efface
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Verb
  • On Wednesday, following the reverse split, shares surged and more than erased their prior day losses.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • However, the Rangers erased the Yankees’ three-run lead in the bottom of the second, as former pinstriped prospects Josh Smith and Ezequiel Duran — traded for Joey Gallo in 2021 — had RBI knocks off Max Fried, with the latter tying the game.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The species was largely eradicated in Connecticut because of habitat loss and over-trapping by the 1900’s.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Measles, once largely eradicated in the United States, has resurged in unvaccinated communities, with outbreaks reported in states surrounding Wisconsin.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • Even after slavery was abolished, some families who sought to find their kin never did.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • New York state, where Gendron pleaded guilty to 15 state charges, including multiple counts of murder, abolished capital punishment in 2004.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Efface.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efface. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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