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to destroy all traces of
in a stroke, the March snowstorm obliterated our hopes for an early spring
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Recent Examples of obliterated
Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
That's not to mention the lower ranks where teams like James Madison or Tulane might find their way into the 12-team field, only to get obliterated in the playoff and lose their coaches and half their players to Power Five schools along the way.
—Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
Trump’s time in office has obliterated the pretense that there’s any meaningful separation between the state and corporate interests.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
Abbey Murphy netted a hat trick along with four assists as the Minnesota women’s hockey team obliterated Sacred Heart 14-2 on Saturday afternoon in Fairfield, Conn.
—Staff Report, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
During World War 2, two of Japan’s cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were obliterated by nuclear bombs dropped by the United States.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Dec. 2025
Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
That blast obliterated a park boardwalk, ejecting rocks and mud hundreds of feet into the air.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Heath is a native of nearby Marshall that was obliterated during Helene when the French Broad River buffering the community bulldozed downtown.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
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In the past, water levels were managed at depths that were too high, which obliterated tree islands that served as important habitat for wildlife such as alligators and deer.
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Gary Simmons’ Rush, housed at the Cookie Factory in Denver, is an immersive meditation on movement, memory, and what gets erased in the recording of American history.—
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Photograph by Stuart Palley I’m writing on the eve of the anniversary of the fires that flattened my Pacific Palisades neighborhood, all but erased the community of Altadena, and left unhealed scars across Los Angeles.—
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Spider mites create webs and can be eradicated with miticide spray.—
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Just last week, a professor who taught at Harvard for 40 years slammed the school for its ideological homogeneity after finishing his last semester, saying that graduate programs were denying White male applicants on racial grounds and that Western civilization courses were being eradicated.—
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The Palisades fire killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 structures, becoming the third-most destructive fire in state history.—
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One year after the Palisades Fire leveled entire neighborhoods and destroyed thousands of homes, one Malibu resident is stepping up to help rebuild his community with his architectural expertise.—
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Quotas related to race and national origin were abolished.—
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In 2020, the Florida Supreme Court also abolished proportionality review, which for 50 years allowed judges to probe the circumstances of death cases to protect defendants from the random imposition of the death penalty.—
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Dead or damaged branches can be removed any time.—
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Your Skin Might Heal Faster Chamomile is often used topically to soothe damaged skin.—
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Jonas Brodin, playing with a mangled finger, scored on a squeaker and had an assist.—
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The rescue team shared photos of the mangled vehicle and the driver walking up the steep ledge with assistance from a rescuer to return to the highway.—
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Hill believes the lack of interest stems from the injury that pretty much wiped out his junior season.—
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Bloomberg reported in December 2024 that Venezuelans were turning to firewood and even their own furniture to cook after an explosion at a propane plant wiped out most of the country’s transmission.—
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His choices allow the viewer to drink in the intimate details of the ruined world.—
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“Obliterated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliterated. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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