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It is clear that Arsenal would almost certainly need to obliterate the British transfer record of £125m, from Alexander Isak's move from Newcastle to Liverpool last summer.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Fox finally broke through with two PGA Tour wins last year, and the one asset he always possessed was the ability to obliterate drives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

If you not yet 65 and are using ACA coverage, Roth conversions can obliterate premium subsidies.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

Nearly 60 years later, Congress has done all it can to obliterate that mission.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2025

And as this scruffy vehicle coasted noisily to a colorful exhaust-belching halt, it happened to obliterate from Bernabe’s view the lone parking meter in town.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

But Mozart’s genius obliterates Salieri’s limited talent so utterly that the elder musician is bewitched by it.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

For the sake of one great moment, she’ll ask us to forget all the other ones it obliterates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

“It’s still the most subversive comedy in ages, a smart bomb that obliterates its intended target.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“The objects we’re trying to study–distant galaxies and stars–are 20 million times fainter than satellites. So when one of these streaks goes across the image, it completely obliterates the image.”

From National Geographic ● Aug. 11, 2023

His most remarkable feature besides his paleness, a paleness that obliterates any possible expression, is his hair.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Al-Dabba, who heads the Beekeepers Cooperative in the Gaza Strip, said the war which erupted in October 2023 obliterated the Palestinian territory's beekeeping culture.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Any hope Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation has been obliterated.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush — a man whose own presidential campaign was obliterated by a reality TV host — called a Pratt campaign video “maybe the best political ad of the year.”

From Salon ● May 18, 2026

She served us, helped us dress, sent us off to school, and left for her own job in a fog of pain that obliterated all hope, all romance.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe finished in 1:59:30, obliterating the previous record of 2:00:35 set at the 2023 Chicago Marathon by Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The United States is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat, obliterating the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, killing some 214,000 people.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

It has been reported that discussions shifted to mitigating rather than obliterating the policy completely.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Questions abound around the wildfires still burning their way across Los Angeles, obliterating entire neighborhoods with an unfathomable speed and ferocity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger