oblivion
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“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
Ultimately they deemed that, under Frank, Spurs were more likely to career into oblivion than stop the rot.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Anthropic /Clawdbot almost single-handedly launching the software sector into oblivion in recent weeks,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026
Mr. Sancton rescues Mr. Dooley from oblivion, just as Mr. Dooley sought to rescue from oblivion the Spanish warship San José.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
All of the salvaged figures were scoured by the swirling currents near the harbor mouth for centuries, and therefore have the smoothed-over, hollow-eyed look of creatures snatched, to their surprise, from the grip of oblivion.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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