oblivion
Example Sentences
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Yet somehow, a world war posed less of a threat to Hearts than the disastrous tenure of a Russian-Lithuanian owner who nearly spent the club into oblivion in the 2010s.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“Cinema is more resistant to oblivion, and certainly longer-living than the short-lived attention span that the internet offers, while your urgency reaches places our films cannot,” Wenders said.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
“I just periodically send an email into oblivion, basically,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Ultimately they deemed that, under Frank, Spurs were more likely to career into oblivion than stop the rot.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Unfortunately for them, and even sadder for Bobby, after Collins received the letter warning him against forwarding anything, that conduit was cut off and the requests for contact drifted down into wastebasket oblivion.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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