effacement

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Recent Examples of effacement Hoss runs the gamut of emotions, from love and vulnerability through anger and grief, to a steely resolve that belies the superficial self-effacement. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022 The Vandewater performs a similar act of semi-self-effacement. Curbed, 18 Aug. 2022 For the aging athlete to continue grinding away, even as their physical prowess begins to fail them, is in some ways a noble act of self-effacement, an abandonment of personal vanity, a repayment of the karmic debt of their natural abilities. Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022 One of the reasons Boseman was such a marvelous actor was his genius for self-effacement, his ability to hold the spotlight without dominating it. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for effacement 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for effacement
Noun
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom placed a hold on executions in 2019.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Biden converted their death sentences to life imprisonment, consistent with his administration’s moratorium on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and mass shootings.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The young man must have been watching the old videos of Shane Warne, Steve Waugh and Matthew Hayden using mental disintegration tactics.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • And might Trump parlay his ongoing disintegration into a spotlight-commanding spectacle?
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 24 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Any number of genre films now turn on unsuspecting characters receiving coveted invites from charismatic neo-barons to their remote compounds for luxury, decadence, and ornate slaughter or some variation thereof.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Farmers there must submit an odor and pest control plan to the county and can build no more than four barns holding egg-laying hens or eight houses for raising chickens for slaughter.
    Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From there, Fogelman quickly gets into his beloved fractured timelines, taking us back several years to show how the two men met, and to see Xavier save Cal (who was still president, sort of, at the time of his death) from a previous assassination attempt.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In July 2024, dramatic photos of President Trump surviving an assassination attempt during a Republican rally in Pennsylvania flooded the internet.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One wonders: Would teaching the Tulsa massacre be allowed?
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The plan seeks to create a level 1 trauma hospital in the area and name it after Dr. A.C. Jackson, a Black surgeon killed during the massacre.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • He was charged in the additional killings of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb, 21-year-old Jill Parenteau, 27-year-old Georgia Wixted and 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb after new DNA evidence connected him to the victims.
    Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Now investigators in at least three countries, including the United States, are sorting through a rogues’ gallery of players, trying to determine how the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 53, was carried out on July 7, 2021.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The potential dissolution between the Kings and their franchise player could be traced back more than a year.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the past, Israel exercised caution in assisting Ukraine, supplying Kyiv with early warning radars and humanitarian aid but eschewing deeper cooperation, fearing retaliation against Russian Jews and the dissolution of the deconfliction channels with Russia in Syria.
    Nicole Grajewski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Effacement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effacement. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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