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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinating
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Strikes and artillery fire were reported across Nabatieh district, destroying homes and residential buildings, according to NNA.
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One video shows a surface to air missile hitting a drone but not destroying it; the drone crashes to the ground and explodes.
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Good to see that the additional stock supply isn’t pulling down the market.
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Chicago area still cleaning up after Wednesday storms All this is happening on the heels of a day where storms wreaked havoc all around the Chicago area, pulling down trees and power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power.
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The Cowboys are like most NFL teams that roll out a synthetic surface that has a grass feel, and is vastly superior to the old knee-ruining ways of AstroTurf.
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The Dodgers are ruining baseball!
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What is in tandem here is the exuberantly generative possibility of life itself (SCOBY, water) alongside the very synthetic polymers that are literally wrecking life on an individual and systemic level.
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Belt-Stubblefield did not stop and ended up wrecking his car.
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Loss of this support, which is said to cover 25% of the center’s operating costs, would have been devastating both financially and reputationally.
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These giant invasive snakes are devastating the Everglades ecosystem by eating through the native food web without any natural predators to keep them in check.
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The British Government is desperate to make progress in tearing down trade barriers.
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Yes to hugging and high-fiving a stranger; no to tearing down a lamppost and smashing a cop car.
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Wilson’s achievement is to bring these meanings forward without flattening the poem’s strangeness or grandeur.
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The answer to modern public life is not flattening everything into slogans or reducing politics to content.
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But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.
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No previous American leader could plausibly have presided over the scene of a tattooed Brazilian fighter in a black cowboy hat and Lycra shorts running out of the White House, saluted by honor guards, with the intent of pulverizing another human being.
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“Ruinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinating. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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