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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinate
Adjective
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His choices allow the viewer to drink in the intimate details of the ruined world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Madeira is intentionally exposed to heat and oxygen during aging, something that would destroy most wines.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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Terminix utilizes the advanced Sentricon baiting system alongside traditional liquid barriers to destroy subterranean colonies entirely.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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In other videos of the incident taken after the red car had apparently crashed into a street pole and a tree, two masked federal officers are seen standing near the wrecked vehicle as Chicago police officers put up red police tape around the scene.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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The driver got out of the wrecked vehicle and tried to run away but was arrested by an OHA officer, police said.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
Verb
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Reese pulled down 17 rebounds, 11 on the offensive end, recording her ninth double-double of the season with 15 points.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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Becerra, the son of Mexican immigrants whose construction worker father didn’t go past the sixth grade, was pulling down good grades at McClatchy High in Sacramento when he was invited to a summer program at UC Davis for promising students of color.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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Finn's devastated parents, brother and grandparents joined the Sayville community at her funeral on Monday amid their heartbreak and tears after the gifted ballerina's death right before Thanksgiving.—
Jennifer McLogan,
CBS News,
1 Dec. 2025
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As for this devastated, miserable, freaked out, walking nervous breakdown of a man?—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
25 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Historically, barrels of Madeira spent months crossing tropical oceans aboard ships, and merchants realized that the heat actually improved the wine rather than ruining it.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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In the early sixteenth century, Spanish colonization wiped out the local population; the land was sparsely populated until the early eighteen-hundreds, when settlers arrived from Turks and Caicos.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2026
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The other car, a Honda, wiped out and crashed into a wall on the Dan Ryan near 95th Street.—
Kris Habermehl,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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It had been turned into a perennial garden in the 1930s using funding from the Works Progress Administration, but was torn down when construction began on the Obama Center.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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Light poles were scaled (and traffic lights torn down) and windshields busted.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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“Ruinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinate. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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