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obliterated

adjective as in eliminated

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The threat in 2001 wasn’t coming from our fellow countrymen, and we weren’t a year into a pandemic that has obliterated all sense of normalcy.

From Quartz

If I ran just three miles in the evening, my thighs, come sunrise, would feel as obliterated as they did after my first marathon.

Such a move would have been considered unthinkable a year ago, but the pandemic has obliterated industry norms.

From Fortune

I punch over the first — with a victorious howl that I’m now certain obliterated the soundscape — and into a swooping downhill beneath chestnut-hued chimneys and ramparts.

South Carolina’s Senate contest is drawing gobs of attention and record-obliterating cash, but this bellwether House race down along the coast is worth watching too.

From Ozy

By Dan P. Lee, New York Magazine She was 22 when her memory was obliterated.

Even in the 1930s at the genesis of his long relationship with Vogue, the sheer drama of his work obliterated the competition.

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.

Lava and ash fell for days; the sun was obliterated for three months.

The fiasco over Proposition 8, she notes, should have been a case for the Avengers, but they were now “obliterated.”

This first great trouble of his life was only partly obliterated by a still greater grief—the death of his mother.

But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliterated these water areas.

It cannot now, however, be identified, having been obliterated or concealed by the changes of the last two centuries.

What I have suffered I cannot describe; but I am now with you again, and your kindness has obliterated it all from my memory.

For a moment, he lost control of himself—they were close together, and the dark had obliterated the room.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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