total annihilation
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“This move is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese military and represents the total annihilation of the high command,” said Christopher Johnson, head of China Strategies Group, a political-risk consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
He has written about how the rise of gaming capitalism has undermined long-standing bonds of kinship among tribes that helped them avoid total annihilation by settler colonialism centuries ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024
For 25 years, he oversaw the process that may represent humans’ best attempt to date at total annihilation of land: strip mining and mountaintop-removal mining of coal.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2020
“We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country — namely, North Korea,” Mattis said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2017
Therefore, total annihilation is an impossibility, and existence can never become nonexistence.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
