total annihilation
Example Sentences
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“This move is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese military and represents the total annihilation of the high command,” said Christopher Johnson, head of China Strategies Group, a political-risk consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
You are always one mistake away from total annihilation.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024
For 25 years, he oversaw the process that may represent humans’ best attempt to date at total annihilation of land: strip mining and mountaintop-removal mining of coal.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2020
Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises to combat massive, malevolent foes that have been feeding on a nuclear plant’s reactors and now threaten mankind with total annihilation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
The radical and total annihilation of this thirst and the abandonment, the liberation, the deliverance from passion, that, O brethren, is the annihilation of suffering.
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul
