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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.
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Communist historians tried to efface whole segments of their nation's past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Afraid not only of assault but afraid that hidden away I would be effaced, forgotten.
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Blemishes like these upon the work of the profession obscure but do not efface the public services it renders.
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It also reconciles two economic and social experiences, effacing class through images and illusions.
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Or, in terms of the concerns of this article, the gay writer had been effaced, leaving a blemish-free heterosexual text.