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An accomplished obliterator of the golf ball when he is at his best, Koepka has strangled Augusta’s par 5s.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

She sees light as the great lover lavishing caresses on the land, or the great obliterator that overwhelms the earth’s solidity, or the great designer reconfiguring common notions about what should hold our attention.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2018

For we are not mere human: we, too, are divine; and there is no such obliterator of the divine as the human that acts undivinely.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George