obliteration
Example Sentences
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Now she was grieving the Taliban’s obliteration of the Afghan legal system and her degree, which was effectively useless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
From obliteration to a viable threat in months.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
The New York Knicks snapped their four-game losing streak with a record-breaking 120-66 obliteration of the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, the most lopsided victory in franchise history.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
The problem is that Ronan is also forging her compelling warts-and-all portrait of obliteration and recovery in another type of gale storm, that of undisciplined filmmaking at odds with the patient harvesting of characterization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
I have given up, too, on oil paints; I have come to dislike their thickness, their obliteration of line, their look of licked lips, the way they call attention to the brushstrokes of the painter.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
