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The tariffs tear that plan to shreds and are drawing India, Russia and China closer together, the NYT argues.
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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
After defeating Bliss in a championship match, Charlotte Flair brutally and methodically ripped the Lilly doll to shreds in the middle of the ring, leaving a distraught Bliss wailing over the remains.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The Guard in 1992 arrived in a city that had melted down: More than 60 people died, 1,000 buildings burned and unrest stretched from City Hall to Hollywood, with whole swaths of South Los Angeles torn to shreds.
—Jim Newton, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
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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
After defeating Bliss in a championship match, Charlotte Flair brutally and methodically ripped the Lilly doll to shreds in the middle of the ring, leaving a distraught Bliss wailing over the remains.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The Guard in 1992 arrived in a city that had melted down: More than 60 people died, 1,000 buildings burned and unrest stretched from City Hall to Hollywood, with whole swaths of South Los Angeles torn to shreds.
—Jim Newton, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
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“To shreds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20shreds. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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