obliterated

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In addition, whatever savings or wealth some workers had accumulated is being obliterated -- primarily as a result of the plummeting value of homes and the effect of the falling stock market on retirement savings.

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  • In addition, whatever savings or wealth some workers had accumulated is being obliterated -- primarily as a result of the plummeting value of homes and the effect of the falling stock market on retirement savings. —  Chicago Indymedia
  • Once the old Reichsmark had been thoroughly obliterated, the return to a stable currency was so absurdly simple as to become known as the "miracle of the Rentenmark." —  Mises Dailies
  • It is important that lessons useful to the poor be obliterated, and so they were. —  MRZine.org
  • The Ospreys scrum was obliterated, and their annoying arrogance was brought to the table again. —  Irish Blogs
  • My own work was obliterated, the pen drawn through it all with the exception of the Kyrie, which was as I left it, save that the word Kyrie was written over it in the strange handwriting. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891
 

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