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What does oblivion mean?

oblivion

the state of being disregarded or forgotten total forgetfulness he sought the great oblivion of sleep

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Simple sentences

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Sometimes silence is not oblivion. Sometimes silence is only patience.

Movie subtitles

Yes. Total oblivion.
But a few hours of oblivion counts.
Into oblivion, I suppose, where most legends go.
No, there can be no oblivion for you.
There's a pain beyond pain, an agony so intense. it shocks the mind into instant oblivion.
Either the gods have granted him oblivion, or he wishes to escape the memory of some great sin or misdeed of his past.
It's the Waters of Lethe. River of Oblivion.
Address it to the dumps, to oblivion.
Dime-store romance, I consign you to oblivion.
Little girl from Nevers with shaven head, this evening I relinquish you to oblivion.
I tried to pour oblivion out of a bottle but it wouldn't pour out.
His sense of justice and all his hard work will be consigned to oblivion and his name dragged in the mud!
I enter oblivion.
My father, for instance. because he sought oblivion.
Then do you, too, seek oblivion?
There's a pain beyond pain an agony so intense, it shocks the mind into instant oblivion.
We want to rescue the Sharu dynasty from oblivion.
Abdulla: five minutes of oblivion after failing to find work.
That's the best place for me- bed, sleep, oblivion.
Total oblivion in ten minutes.
Oh, they know the world's probably on the brink of oblivion, but instead of trying to get to their homes and families, here they are, racing under the sea, driven on by one man's wild scheme, which has no proven scientific basis.
Here, all expression, even the most violent, is a desire for oblivion.
Our sensuality is a longing for oblivion.
Oblivion.
Many. My father, for instance. because he sought oblivion.
Right into oblivion!
I have no wish to hurt you or her, but, if necessary, I can leave her in a screaming oblivion.
Even if we'd try to consign it to oblivion, we couldn't prevent rumours.
Push far enough, he'd send you to oblivion, too.
In this oblivion, horizons searched by other poets.
It's then released to the desired quantities to produce instant tranquillity or temporary oblivion.
Rescue us from oblivion.

News and current affairs

Draghi reversed the euro's slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments' bonds.
Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
It also took with it into oblivion an unknown number of parasite species that made the monkey their home - parasites that might have included viruses, bacteria, protozoans, fungi, tapeworms, and other gruesome creatures.
Some have done so, more or less voluntarily, only to re-emerge suddenly from oblivion.
Recent historical research has rescued the old Silk Road from historical oblivion.
But the cause of nuclear non-proliferation is now in deep trouble, as countries are once again tempted to acquire the means of oblivion.
Indeed, the Fund almost disappeared into complete oblivion during their tenure.
Merkel barely avoided political oblivion in the last general election, after the CDU had embraced market radicalism and then campaigned on it in 2005.
Tudjman, long an object of dread, has vanished from the political screen, taking into oblivion the ideological clutter that made Croatia a pariah state.

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