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• Chicks for sale are also scarce due to the rise in demand from the ravages of the virus.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2025
• For millions more, the ravages of climate change are already at their doorstep.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
• That was 20 years ago now, and as the clip above shows, the ravages of time have come for us all since then.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• But these and many other tree species are now rare due to the ravages of disease and invasive pests.
  — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
• Also with the ravages of a generation that takes drugs, that loves, that dies young.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Other times, though, the ravages of time have not been kind to the treasured juice inside the bottle.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• And if that's the case, few in this region of 25 million are truly safe from the ravages of such blazes.
  — Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• Advertisement From coast to coast this week, the ravages of climate change were clear.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• All this said, what was proven in the debate is that he has been diminished by the ravages of time and mental impairment.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
• For much of history, that battle has been waged against microbes, mutations, and the ravages of old age.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
• Were these visions into an unraveling mind, beset by the ravages of age?
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2024
• There are serious matters afoot, parental abandonment and the ravages of cancer among them.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
• The climate is still changing rapidly, exposing people who have no choice but to work outside to the ravages of heat.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• To ensure the device survives the ravages of time, the tiny opening was pierced through a thin layer of 24-karat gold.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• Many students are studying for a career in social work, to combat the ravages of drugs, or hoping to secure a job at the lab.
  — Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
• The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Paradise, even before it was lost, needed to be regained, each day’s work undoing the ravages of the day before.
  — Katie Kadue, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
• But showing concern for others is not a new concept brought on by the ravages of Covid and its aftermath in the workplace.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• With little to no game prep each week, his body wracked by the ravages of chemo, Curtis is having the best season of his college career.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
• The idea is to protect human achievements and physical property against the ravages of nature.
  — Kathy Baughman McLeod, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• But below him, an image of Adad, the god of weather, is barely visible – lost to the ravages of time and climate change.
  — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2022
• This led to fervent talk about our perpetual lack of funds, the ravages of late capitalism, and how to assuage said ravages.
  — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
• Equally humorous and darkly sobering, the men spoke frankly about the ravages of drug addiction, alcoholism, and fame.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2020
• Popular on Variety Still, after the ravages of the pandemic and the strikes, a tough road lies ahead.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 June 2024
• By the early 1970s, however, most of the world’s leading economies had rebuilt themselves from the ravages of war.
  — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2023
• If that isn’t bad enough, foreign investors, in an attempt to escape the ravages of depreciating currencies, run for the hills.
  — Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• Projects like these also increase vulnerability to the ravages of climate change.
  — John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
• The new study also suggests why this particular version of this gene may have helped some avoid the ravages of the worst pandemic in modern history.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Still, the climate crisis is a platform for African progress in ways the fight against apartheid and efforts to limit the ravages of resource extraction weren’t.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
• Transplants, retirees, and second-homers thought western North Carolina would be a refuge from the ravages of climate change.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024