as in destructions
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
the sheer devastation of the housing development by the forest fire
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Noun
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All part of our great age of extinctions.—
Robert Minhinnick,
The Dial,
2 Oct. 2025 -
Yet, there are some extinctions that have felt significantly more tragic than others.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Future solar cells, for instance, might harness coherence to move energy more efficiently, reducing losses and boosting performance.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Small private-sector businesses drove last month’s decline, and losses were widespread across industries (with some of the largest losses in professional and business services and leisure and hospitality), ADP reported.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Back in his day, hangdog stoner Bob (DiCaprio) used to be quite the revolutionary as the demolitions expert for a small but effective anti-establishment outfit called the French 75.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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But the organization still hopes to forestall the demolitions.—
Outside,
Outside,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But on that record, even the happiest songs had a kind of love-among-the-ruins feel, where the romanticism seemed hard-fought.—
Liz Schubauer,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The colt doesn’t know the racetrack he was bred for – the pride of Ruidoso – lies in ruins for the second year running, gutted by floodwaters that turned familiar dirt into a sucking bog of mud.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Devastations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devastations. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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