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• Two years of war have left Gaza in ruins.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
• In a matter of hours, all that the cell had built lies in ruins.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• The small business is now in ruins.
  — Eva Andersen, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
• The Gaza Strip has been left in ruins.
  — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
• The damage was already done, and the kingdom was left in ruins.
  — Tracy Levine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The efforts have left many of southern Lebanon’s towns in ruins.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
• Israel's two-year assault has left much of the enclave in ruins.
  — Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
• Disease is spreading, and the health-care system is in ruins.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• After months of shelling, the city’s buildings are almost all in ruins.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay in ruins.
  — Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
• Tonight, Iran's Navy is gone, their Air Force is in ruins.
  — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
• The fires also burned homes and left the historic town of Lahaina in ruins.
  — Kate Selig, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Once again, Gaza was left in ruins, and its population had to start over.
  — Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
• Now in ruins, the structure lacked a roof and was overgrown with tropical plants.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
• Neighbors with flashlights found the couple unharmed, but the house lay in ruins.
  — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of charred homes remain in ruins while businesses and schools are still shuttered.
  — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Two and a half minutes later, most of the town lay in ruins, consumed first by earthquake and then by fire.
  — Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
• In the wake of what has been cast by some as Israel’s 9/11, a lot lies in ruins.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• Gaza itself has been largely destroyed with most buildings in ruins.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
• Much of Gaza is in ruins and most of its population has been displaced.
  — Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
• Many have been unable to return to their homes in the south, where villages along the border remain in ruins.
  — Fadi Tawil, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026
• The fighting has left the airport in ruins, and commercial flights are grounded.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The black basalt station in Daraa, the second-largest in Syria, is in ruins.
  — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2025
• In the process, Gaza itself has been largely destroyed with most buildings in ruins.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
• There’s been a Russian missile attack, and the house, like the woman’s life, lies in ruins.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• The film follows the after-effects of the explosion in Beirut, which left the city in ruins.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
• With their houses in ruins, many people were living in the open amid a fear of aftershocks, Noorzai added.
  — Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
• But the Eaton Fire has left the friendly, flourishing artist enclave in ruins.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
• But all of this will be extremely difficult in a place where most health-care facilities are in ruins.
  — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
• The war has left most of Gaza in ruins, and at its height displaced around 90% of the population.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025