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Recent Examples of Synonyms for despoliations
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His nanny was his fierce protector and insulated him from the depredations of Nazis and their enablers, baptizing him and teaching him to handily hurl anti-Jewish epithets to fit in.—
Ron Kampeas,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2026 -
The fruits of a different robber baron’s depredations gave us the Frick, and Annabelle Selldorf’s firm renovated and expanded it using a completely different set of principles from those applied at Domino.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Jan. 2026
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The company also has Fox Nation, a subscription streamer featuring lifestyle and other programming substantially designed to appeal to superfans of Fox News Channel, long the biggest of the 24/7 news operations but facing cord-cutting’s decimations like all its cable brethren.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Mussolini had a villa built, reduced like almost everything else to a pile of ruins.—
Marzio G. Mian,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
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But the sacred institution, founded in 1813, is now in ruins.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Since 2020 — and even with the devastations of a pandemic that left older people especially vulnerable — this age cohort has been the only one to grow.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
25 July 2025
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Live events as a category have quickly recovered from the devastations of the pandemic lockdown, with music in particular a hot commodity, as evidenced by the massively lucrative recent tours of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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As the story goes, the annihilations released energy, heating the gas clouds and puffing them up, preventing the high pressures that lead to the nuclear fusion that powers most stars.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Nov. 2025
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The dark matter annihilations essentially provide an additional source of energy that stays constant regardless of what happens to the star's density.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
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Instant extinctions are not limited to mechanical innovations like photography and cinematography, however.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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While extinctions are always multi-faceted, the extermination of some species can be almost directly linked to the insatiable appetites of modern humans.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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There are strict rules in California around the purchasing of dynamite, which is generally restricted to licensed professionals working in mining and quarry operations, building demolitions, tunneling projects and specialized industrial activities.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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The home had belonged to the caller’s late father, a former military demolitions instructor, according to the Sheriff’s Office.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
26 May 2026
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Though the Ducks created havoc in the Vegas crease with 30 seconds left and surrendered a chance at the buzzer, the third period ended scoreless to extend Saturday’s showdown.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
23 Nov. 2025
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Astronomers have discovered that an aging red giant star has a closely orbiting stellar companion, which could be causing havoc to the star's processes.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Nov. 2025
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“Despoliations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoliations. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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