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The pleura is often involved in active TB disease and this can take on the form of effusions, tuberculous empyema or obliterative fibrous pleuritis— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The Christian notion that "God gave us his only begotten son" stands in stark contrast to the ancient East's insight into the obliterative power of uninterested nature, and by extension, God.— ScreenTalk
Distance and time have other potentialities besides the obliterative: they may breed halos.— The Quickening
It may here be made clear that it was Yuen Yan's custom to wear suspended about his neck an inscribed board bearing the words, "Speechless, and devoid of the faculty of hearing," but this originated out of his courteous and deferential nature (for to his self-obliterative mind it did not seem respectful that he should appear to be better endowed than those whom he led), nor could it be asserted that he wilfully deceived even the passing stranger, for he would freely enter into conversation with anyone whom he encountered.— Kai Lung's Golden Hours
I know no din at once so obliterative and brain-shaking as that induced by the passage of a— Jonah and Co.
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