as in destruction
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
the ill-advised obliteration of the town's historic district in order to make way for a shopping center
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Recent Examples of obliteration
There was Kyle Harrison’s revenge game and Logan Webb’s first true gem of the season; the 19-run outburst and the seven-homer barrage; the walk-off losses and the 14-run obliteration; the introduction of third base coach Gary Pettis and the shocking promotion of outfielder Jonah Cox.
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
This was an obliteration, of a player one year his senior.
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Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Yet despite the obliteration of scores of military targets, the regime in Tehran has proved resilient and able to strike its Gulf neighbors.
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Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Visitors are stunned seeing the rampant, deliberate obliteration of the character of Hillcrest.
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U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
The Butlerian Jihad ultimately resulted in the obliteration of all thinking machines, as well as a wholesale ban on any new robotic creations.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that with the near-complete obliteration of the Iranian military, the next phase of the war is to destroy Iran’s arms manufacturing supply chain.
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Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Mar. 2026
The dangerous joy, the glee and courage, the humor in the face of fate, the wild ramble of a life driven towards the artistic heavens and the daily balm of self obliteration.
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Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
This is well-observed, though the obliteration of the frothiest market themes from their early 2021 peak was far more damaging than anything seen so far this month.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
This was an obliteration, of a player one year his senior.
—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Yet despite the obliteration of scores of military targets, the regime in Tehran has proved resilient and able to strike its Gulf neighbors.
—
Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Visitors are stunned seeing the rampant, deliberate obliteration of the character of Hillcrest.
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U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
The Butlerian Jihad ultimately resulted in the obliteration of all thinking machines, as well as a wholesale ban on any new robotic creations.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that with the near-complete obliteration of the Iranian military, the next phase of the war is to destroy Iran’s arms manufacturing supply chain.
—
Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Mar. 2026
The dangerous joy, the glee and courage, the humor in the face of fate, the wild ramble of a life driven towards the artistic heavens and the daily balm of self obliteration.
—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
This is well-observed, though the obliteration of the frothiest market themes from their early 2021 peak was far more damaging than anything seen so far this month.
—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliteration
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Rodríguez said authorities have recorded 862 aftershocks since the main quakes and confirmed that 189 buildings collapsed completely nationwide, the vast majority in La Guaira, the coastal state that suffered the worst destruction.
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Our previous card featured the fiery destruction of the Missouri Pacific depot in 1909.
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Following years of economic devastation and underinvestment in public services, the country’s infrastructure – from hospitals to electricity and water – is ill-equipped to deal with a crisis like this.
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And then there's water damage and the devastation caused by flooding.
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The beloved southern elephant seal, Neil the Seal, is back in Tasmania, causing havoc yet again and garnering fans through his antics.
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Those same issues have ships and planes on high alert in the Middle East, and the ongoing conflict across the region is causing havoc for civilian applications like ride-hailing and food delivery.
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Although this is likely an underestimate, due to insufficient data on more than half of North America's firefly species, at least 18 species are officially listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as threatened with extinction.
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The fossils date to the Paleocene Epoch, the first 10 million years after the end-Cretaceous extinction, during which mammals rapidly diversified as ecosystems slowly recovered.
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The congregation started to arrive at the usual time, about half an hour before Mass on a recent Saturday afternoon, the old church slowly filling with the descendants and caretakers of a place of great serenity but also great loss.
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Fireflies are facing growing challenges from habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change and light pollution.
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The Robeson site developer ultimately began demolition on that site over the winter, so the city did not have to carry out receivership there.
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Project Purple is being built about two years after the demolition of Kingda Ka, the park's iconic launch coaster that stood 456 feet tall before it was removed in early 2025.
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“Obliteration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliteration. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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