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Recent Examples of demolition The Philadelphia Eagles will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl after their demolition of the Washington Commanders on Sunday. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025 By 1995, the dilapidated house was condemned and slated for demolition. Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025 Neither Bahrain, Morocco, nor the United Arab Emirates have sought to intervene with Israel to prevent home demolitions or evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, or to address record-breaking settlement expansion and settler violence across the West Bank. Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025 But that all changed a few years ago when St. Petersburg foreclosed over unpaid property liens stemming from the house demolition and maintenance. Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for demolition 
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Noun
  • The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has declared the Palisades and Eaton fires fully contained after nearly three and a half weeks of destruction across Southern California.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Contributor As natural disasters ravage the U.S. and beyond, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, the human toll and emotional devastation are immeasurable.
    William Jones, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Supporters of the crackdown have also taken to social media to try to undermine the raid warnings, contributing false sightings to the people trying to aggregate data and generally causing havoc to try to disrupt the efforts.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Even rudimentary AIs could potentially cause havoc.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Fish including the delta smelt, Chinook salmon and giant sturgeon are threatened with extinction.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This makes Stevns Klint one of the most important locations for understanding the end-Cretaceous extinction and its aftermath, offering a window into the dramatic changes in Earth's biosphere and the recovery of life following the event.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Just two weeks ago, Boise State basketball was 5-4 in Mountain West play, had lost three straight road games following a last-second loss to Colorado State, and didn’t even seem to have an identity.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Teams are ranked by wins and losses regardless of region, league or school size.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Demolition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demolition. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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