obliteration
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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
"I think we're right on the cusp of a total obliteration of diesel trucks as a product category."
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
From obliteration to a viable threat in months.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 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
Reston was once a country town, and its rural past still fights obliteration, like a nail that won’t stay hammered down.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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