efface

Example Sentences

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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

Clichés like these efface the complications of real relationships.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 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

But some feel privileging an object’s “universal” value can efface the particular history in which it is inscribed, as well as the experiences of the individuals who made it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018

She is told that she is still in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri