Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinating
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That second blaze burned charred 23,500 acres in that community, Malibu and elsewhere, killing 12 people and destroying or damaging more than 7,500 homes and businesses.
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These kinds of old negatives are often stored inside cans and are so fragile they can’t be unrolled without destroying them, Seales says.
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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 company was saving a few bucks but ruining its product.
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Adidas’s everyday sneakers can handle 20,000 steps without ruining an outfit, perfectly balancing cool with comfy.
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As many little heartbeats as possible, just running around, wrecking stuff in the house.
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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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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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Backes said plans call for tearing down the existing building where the call center is located and building a data center that would conform to North Richland Hills’ requirements.
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The British Government is desperate to make progress in tearing down trade barriers.
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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 29 Jun. 2026.
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