Example Sentences
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The Eaton and Palisades fires effaced entire communities, destroyed thousands of homes and left more than two dozen dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Although written in fire and effaced in ash, these deaths all become recognizable as messages of protest, refusal and resistance in reference to Bouazizi’s act.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
But that timing dates back to when broadcast television dominated — both in viewership and Emmys contenders — in a way that has been effaced by cable television and streaming services.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
While the channel has protected the city from major flooding, it has also worsened the effects of segregation, and so effaced the river that many Angelenos might no longer know it was ever there.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
