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But to create this, the historic centre of the mosque will be obliterated.
England arrived in Perth 2-0 down, having been obliterated in Brisbane by 277 runs and succumbing to final day jitters in Adelaide as their batsmen collapsed to 129 all out, en route to a six-wicket defeat.
Her 20 years in business after graduating from LSE – rising from driver to director at a publishing company – have, she says, been "obliterated " by her opponents who prefer to create a "myth" and dwell on her time as a special adviser in opposition.
No wonder Stalin's portraits are on show again at military parades and public celebrations, while Lenin has been obliterated.
In the pre-1989 world, MAD signified the nuclear stalemate between the US and the Soviet Union – that there was peace for more than four decades, despite the world being split into two competing ideological camps, because of the threat of each side being obliterated by the other.
In the past, subjects obliterated by Touitou's scorn include normcore, oversexy dressing, retail rent prices in Mayfair and yoga trousers.
Brisbane lost skipper Tom Rockliff with broken ribs and coach Justin Leppitsch admitted his men had been "obliterated " in both contested possession and pressure acts in the first three quarters.
Pron's narrator, living abroad and having obliterated his memory with drugs, returns to Argentina and, through reading his father's news articles about a disappearance case in his hometown, begins thinking more deeply about the dirty war.
The worst-ever outbreak of the virus has claimed almost 3,700 lives in the impoverished west African nation, one of three countries that have seen their economies wrecked and healthcare systems obliterated in the crisis.
To make a meaningful nationalist comparison in British politics you have to go all the way back to 1918, when Sinn Féin obliterated the Home Rulers across Ireland at the end of the first world war.
Abdel Rahman, a golden-robed fighter, says he quit his job as a lawyer after the government obliterated his home village last year with "barrel bombs" filled with metal shards.
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"Obliterated" primarily functions as the past participle of the verb "obliterate," indicating a completed action of destruction or removal. It can also serve as an adjective describing something that has been completely destroyed. Ludwig examples support this dual role, aligning with Ludwig AI's grammatical correctness assessment.
Expression frequency: Very common
