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

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

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

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

There was nothing more for him but to efface himself, to destroy the unsuccessful structure of his life, to throw it away, mocked at by the gods.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse