airbrush
noun
an atomizer for spraying paint.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Yet it has airbrushed other parts of its past: the Berlin Wall is barely commemorated.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2011