efface
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"You may have the power to bring down the government. But you cannot efface reality," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
It’s exceedingly unlikely that Leo had anything to do with her murder, but the show doesn’t efface her tragedy, even as it reckons with the gravity of Leo’s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
Frankly, to efface all cartographic memorials to racism in Alexandria would require changing the name of the city itself.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
Even his too-muchness, though, had its source in a rich and vivid queer identity he alternately skirted, trumpeted and refuted but could never successfully efface.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
She is told that she is still in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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