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Opponents say approving it will obliterate the U.K.’s image as a world leader in replacing polluting fossil fuels with clean renewable energy.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

“What you are destroying is us, doing something that will overwhelm our history, a single action which if you bring it down on us will obliterate the whole story which precedes it.”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Starting in February, the artist will obliterate the work bit by bit.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2017

He emphasized the openness of the vote: “The Yes will obliterate publicly the remaining barriers of prejudice and the irrational fear of the them and us.”

From The New Yorker • May 21, 2015

So long as I do not know his name perhaps I may still forget him, time will obliterate it, this picture.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque