as in ignorance
a state of being disregardful or unconscious of one's surroundings, concerns, or obligations
for two weeks each year the stressed-out couple enjoy the blissful oblivion that comes with a vacation at the beach
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Recent Examples of oblivion
In the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians picked their way through a devastated landscape of rubble and twisted metal that had been bombed into oblivion in the war's most intense fighting.
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Mohammed Salem, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
There's a clarion call across many industries today: Enterprises must transform or risk fading into oblivion.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
In 30 minutes, they were shot into oblivion by Jackson’s ragtag army.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
The loss dropped the Rams’ record to 0-2 en route to a 1-4 start that had coach Sean McVay’s team on the brink of potential playoff oblivion.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Mohammed Salem, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
There's a clarion call across many industries today: Enterprises must transform or risk fading into oblivion.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
In 30 minutes, they were shot into oblivion by Jackson’s ragtag army.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
The loss dropped the Rams’ record to 0-2 en route to a 1-4 start that had coach Sean McVay’s team on the brink of potential playoff oblivion.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblivion
Noun
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Blindness or willful ignorance of the future is an extremely risky path to pursue.—
PATRICK CASEY, DEBRA FISER, WHIT HALL and GARY WHEELER Special to the Democrat-Gazette,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Feb. 2025
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The recent malicious defamation and degradation of DEI is based at best on ignorance and at worst, on racial bias and stereotyping.—
Dr. Tony Lux,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This Broadway Center Stage mounting is a tightly packed clown car, speeding to musical-theater nirvana.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
15 May 2023
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Several tournament anglers have lived big bass nirvana on Rayburn in recent times, including a trio of single-day tournament catches topping the 40-pound mark on five fish.—
Matt Williams,
Dallas News,
22 Jan. 2022
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Trump maintains his innocence, and the judgment of now over $500 million, including interest, is on appeal.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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Pink is a blend of red (passion) and white (innocence).—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Oblivion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblivion. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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