as in erased
to destroy all traces of
when the supply ship finally arrived, it discovered that virtually all evidence of the colony at Roanoke had been effaced
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The Kennedy boys basketball team erased a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to pull off a stunning 69-63 win over Valencia on Thursday night at Valencia High.—
David Delgado,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026 -
In a vacuum, this would make the Wilderness a little swifter to 60 than a standard turbo Outback; in practice, the gearing advantage is pretty much erased by the heft of the standard Bridgestone Dueler all-terrain tires.—
Byron Hurd,
The Drive,
22 Jan. 2026
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In the final issue, published in 2021, The Beauty has been eradicated.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
22 Jan. 2026
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Prior to their reign of terror, measles had been basically eradicated.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2026
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Telling that the utopian futurists of mid-century envisioned a post-scarcity world brought about by technology, where dangerous work, boring work, routine work was done by machines, and labor itself was abolished so that all humans would be free to be artists, philosophers, writers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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While sales of EVs and plug-ins have grown, the rate of adoption in California has slowed in the past couple of years, before the federal tax credit was abolished.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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Well, Federer just destroyed him — 6-1, 6-4 in about 50 minutes — and that left a lot of time to fill.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The fire killed two people, destroyed 1,084 homes and businesses and did more than $2 billion in property damage.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Effaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effaced. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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