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efface

[ih-feys] / ɪˈfeɪs /


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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

He has a formal, shy, sincere manner, polite and cautious, as if to efface his size and menace.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Yet, though he could efface his own ego when necessary, he never dodged responsibility.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2020

Most essentially, “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” not unlike Fleischmann’s first book “Syzygy, Beauty,” effaces lines of genre as a strategy to efface, or disrupt, lines of self and gender.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2019

They seemed very small, and they tried to efface themselves in outside neglect, and the wild overgrown front yards tried to hide them from the street.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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