oblivion
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Richard Vague’s “The Banker Who Made America” rescues Willing from oblivion, declaring his subject “the most powerful figure in early American history that you’ve likely never heard of.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But even on the shots that fly into a grassy oblivion, he smiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
This would be a near-certain embarrassment for a man who achieved something incredible - taking Labour from near oblivion back into power in four years.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
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
I face an incoming tide of forgetting, and then oblivion.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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