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Holland wasn’t brought in to rip it to shreds and start another rebuild.
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Eric Stephens, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Minnesota roared out of the gates in the third quarter, utilizing ball movement to rip that same zone defense to shreds and remove the final ounces of fight from the Warriors.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
So, yes: What started as disagreements over budgetary policy ended with Musk and Trump verbally ripping each other to shreds on Thursday.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 6 June 2025
That means its origin must be extragalactic, perhaps created in the violence of a star exploding and producing a gamma-ray burst, or a supermassive black hole ripping a star or gas cloud to shreds with its titanic gravitational tidal forces.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Eric Stephens, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Minnesota roared out of the gates in the third quarter, utilizing ball movement to rip that same zone defense to shreds and remove the final ounces of fight from the Warriors.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
So, yes: What started as disagreements over budgetary policy ended with Musk and Trump verbally ripping each other to shreds on Thursday.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 6 June 2025
That means its origin must be extragalactic, perhaps created in the violence of a star exploding and producing a gamma-ray burst, or a supermassive black hole ripping a star or gas cloud to shreds with its titanic gravitational tidal forces.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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“To shreds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20shreds. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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