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But some may feel that the warm welcome Omar receives from the enslaved workers at Owen’s plantation effaces the harsher reality of the character’s circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022

Indeed, each film effaces the collective aspects of the assassination research by presenting the historiographic challenges of the period as essentially the work of one man.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2017

It’s an enormous story, one that, in the telling, nearly effaces Wilkerson’s presence onstage.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2017

Abstraction effaces the sore toes and false starts and noisy crowds of a particular place and date.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2012

Another red line which effaces trouble is patience.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John