Sentence examples for practically obliterated from inspiring English sources

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In my column "The Obliterated Place" — a column that practically obliterated me to write — I say that I'm a better person for having lost my mom young because it taught me things.

As the levees along the Industrial Canal burst open, the Lower Ninth Ward was practically obliterated.

In the hard-hit northeast, livestock herds were practically obliterated, cereal prices doubled and nutrition-related diseases among children increased dramatically.

Meanwhile, the biggest opposition party, the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party PASS), retained only seven of the 27 national seats it held in 1999, was practically obliterated in one of the two states it had controlled, and held on to the other by the thinnest of margins.

As the BBC reported it, "Scientists have practically obliterated the ultimate symbol of maleness in DNA, the Y chromosome, and believe they may be able to do away with it completely".

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This court has heretofore held that that could not be done, and that such a result would, for most purposes, practically obliterate the 11th Amendment, and place the states, in vital particulars, as absolutely under the control of the subordinate Federal courts, as if they were capable of being directly sued.

As a relatively new phenomenon in the crowded arena of journalists whose specialty it is to report the news of the catwalks, fashion bloggers have ascended from the nosebleed seats to the front row with such alacrity that a long-held social code among editors, one that prizes position and experience above outward displays of ambition or enjoyment, has practically been obliterated.

America saw jobs obliterated.

This election obliterated them.

Has it obliterated it?

Mingling is obliterated.

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