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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

The tower was locked and the mural effaced.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2022

And the shutdown is also an opening to acknowledge society's dependence on care giving labor and confront the ways this work — in families, schools, retirement communities — has been disparaged, effaced and desperately under-compensated.

From Salon • May 29, 2021

Los Angeles, which has largely effaced its Mexican past, likes to pretend it doesn’t have much history.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

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