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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinate
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In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025 -
As rumors swirl and her life collapses, Eva faces a choice: protect herself or expose Amir’s secret and risk destroying him.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
30 June 2025
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It’s designed with a hidden cutout in the back that makes the jumpsuit easy to pull down during bathroom breaks.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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Then, the Senate simply pulled down the amendment, something that shocked Capitol veterans.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Now a wonderful memory of the occasion will be ruined in my memories.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
9 July 2025
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The ceiling was now on the floor, the world had turned itself upside down, her outfit and her day and her rug were seemingly ruined—and yet she herself was not hurt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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The devastated family members of the victims watched Friday's sentencing via video from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Oblivion also happens to be the title of Kosinski’s second film, in which Cruise plays a sentry watching over a devastated Earth that has become inhospitable to all life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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There’s a catch: Before the sale can go through, the company wants the Landmarks Preservation Commission to de-designate the building so that it can be torn down.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
27 June 2025
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His daytime classical studies and nighttime performances in Paris jazz clubs helped to solidify his theory that the walls between classical and jazz were artificial and should be torn down.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
26 June 2025
Verb
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Day camp providers and schools are warning that a Trump administration funding freeze could wreck summer for low-income American families and wipe out some after-school programming next year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
2 July 2025
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Social media is abuzz with Tatsuki's prophecy of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami wrecking her home country of Japan -- a place prone to natural disasters but also a top destination for many in Asia -- sometime between July 5 and 7.—
Britt Clennett,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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But in the last few years, an explosion of warehouse development has wiped out farmland and open space.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2023
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Across the industry Profits are getting wiped out across the whole chip industry, owing to excess inventories among manufacturers and retailers and a drop in demand for PCs, smartphones, and consumer electronics.—
BYNicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
1 Feb. 2023
Verb
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The internet has fragmented and flattened subcultures.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 July 2025
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About a mile south — at a rural corner lot since flattened by Tuesday’s calamitous explosions at a fireworks storage facility — laid the place where their missing sons and grandsons, respectively, were last known to be.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
3 July 2025
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“Ruinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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