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in oblivion

ADJECTIVE

bygone

Synonyms

STRONG

ancient dead departed former lost

WEAK

antiquated archaic belated dated defunct down memory lane erstwhile extinct forgotten gone gone-by late of old of yore old-fashioned old-time olden oldfangled one-time out-of-date previous quondam sometime vanished water over the dam water under the bridge

Antonyms

STRONG

alive existent existing living

WEAK

modern new recent

Example Sentences

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The hell depicted in “Hadestown” is a Rust Belt city in oblivion, where proletarian recruits trade perpetual work in the mines and pits for Hades’s paternalism and the security of eternal life.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

I asked Mr. Fox about the potential market in oblivion.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

In several poems, Amichai gives expression to a fear that the Jews and their God might go down together, united in oblivion.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

Today’s fear is that Ayotzinapa will be buried in oblivion together with hundreds of Latin-American struggles.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2015

Far gone in weariness, in oblivion, the noble and enduring man slept on; but Athena in the night went down the land of the Phaiakians, entering their city.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

in oblivion

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