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Their attacking thrusts sliced the Serbians to shreds.
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The lighthouse is still a vital aid to navigation in the area, where the water is full of jagged underwater rocks that can tear a ship’s bottom to shreds in minutes.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The tariffs tear that plan to shreds and are drawing India, Russia and China closer together, the NYT argues.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Within a light-year of that merger, anything caught by the waves would be torn to shreds as the competing gravitational forces overwhelmed them.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The lighthouse is still a vital aid to navigation in the area, where the water is full of jagged underwater rocks that can tear a ship’s bottom to shreds in minutes.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The tariffs tear that plan to shreds and are drawing India, Russia and China closer together, the NYT argues.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Within a light-year of that merger, anything caught by the waves would be torn to shreds as the competing gravitational forces overwhelmed them.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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“To shreds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20shreds. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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