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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 area has remained surface parking lots since 2012, when the arena was demolished.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
13 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
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In the first incident, a tornado completely destroyed the building.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Footage showed the mangled wreckage on an embankment on the side of the highway.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Workers operated excavators to pull large objects and mangled metal from building foundations, tossing the debris into freight containers.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 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
Verb
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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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However, Ike was concerned that the weakened and devastated nation might soon fall to communism.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Both kids cried even before their devastated father, Bill McArthur, stepped forward.—
Tony Holt,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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