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Verb
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After a vicious cyclone this month razed slums housing many undocumented immigrants on the French island territory of Mayotte, Safina Soula did not shed a tear.—
Julie Bourdin,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024 -
Historians commissioned by the state had just published an official report on the deadly attack on the town of Rosewood in 1923, when a white mob razed the majority-Black community and drove out its residents.—
Kate Payne,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The Stretford End was demolished and replaced.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Lower Hill District was a vibrant, majority-Black neighborhood before it was controversially demolished in the 1950s to make way for the Civic Arena.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
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The war has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced most of the population and left nearly everyone dependent on international aid.—
Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Homes and the nearby shops on North Fair Oaks had been destroyed.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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They are mangled, bottled spiders of venom with humor and cutting, biting Irish lyricism.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
5 June 2025
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Debris from the aircraft was seen strewn along a nearby road and several other cars on the road were also charred and mangled and could be seen still smoldering hours later as the morning sky brightened.—
Michael Dorgan , Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
Verb
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That’s already ahead of Wisconsin’s 2023 national record of $56 million, which obliterated the previous high-water mark of $15 million set during the 2004 election of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, even when adjusting for inflation.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Thanks to major investments in public health, diseases such as smallpox, polio, yellow fever, malaria, measles, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tuberculosis have either been obliterated or become vanishingly rare.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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The venture devised by stars Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy was intended to launch a year ago but a storm wrecked the building.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 Jan. 2025
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Knee and shoulder injuries wrecked her 2024 season, with the Tunisian speaking about needing regular knee injections to be able to play following a third-round defeat to Elina Svitolina at Wimbledon in July.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In a tragic accident, Buckley drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis in 1997, leaving behind an unfinished second album and a legion of devastated family, friends and fans.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
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In particular, McCann appears eager to wrap his arms around the internet’s social, political, and spiritual impact: how instant global connectivity has brought people together but also fostered hate and devastated nature in the name of progress.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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“Dynamited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dynamited. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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