efface

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Recent Examples of efface The self gets effaced and re-created in so many cross hatches, small threads, and hypnotic patterns. Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024 Boosters of the seed vault sustain the logic of their effort in part by effacing the embarrassment of the flood. Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024 Beijing has also routinely sent ships and aircraft across the median line running through the Taiwan Strait, effacing a de facto boundary that was defined in 1955. Isaac Kardon, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024 Lee’s joie de vivre infects her co-workers and bosses, who likewise begin to think that loneliness is something to be felt rather than effaced. Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for efface
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Verb
  • Still, the Biden administration erased student loan debt for more than 5 million borrowers through other forgiveness programs.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • While the Yankees made two errors in the game, a pickoff play between Fried and Jazz Chisholm Jr. at second base erased a two-base mistake from Oswaldo Cabrera in the fourth.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • What to know to recognize the symptoms How to get rid of acid reflux In most cases, acid reflux can actually be eradicated for good.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Ease of use The goal of a fruit fly trap is to easily and quickly eradicate your population of fruit flies.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The most recent collective bargaining agreement, signed by the players and the league, abolished the college draft and opened the door for every new player to enter the league as a free agent.
    Meg Linehan, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Others, like the Cato Institute, go one step further and suggest FEMA be abolished entirely, replaced by market solutions and state compacts.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Efface.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efface. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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