oblivion
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Slim Pickens yee-hawed riding “Dr. Strangelove’s” atomic bomb to oblivion; Cruise brandishes his grandpappy’s original shovel that struck crude in 1917 and whoops, “Oil is the mother’s milk of Earth!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
He senses the world changing in real time and doesn’t want to get left behind, lest his reporting and notoriety succumb to oblivion.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Interim Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates praised the prime minister and said he had brought his party "back from oblivion".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The author rescues her from near-historical oblivion, portraying a woman of intense piety, “even more devout than her mother-in-law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
I’ve been slammed into oblivion over and over.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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