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oblivion

[uh-bliv-ee-uhn] / əˈblɪv i ən /




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But while “Renoir” features no sci-fi elements, the nearness of oblivion remains just as prominent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

“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

His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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