as in to wipe out
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Because banana plants are propagated asexually via rhizome cuttings rather than seeds, entire plantations can be wiped out in a single outbreak, with no genetic bulwark to slow or prevent the pathogen’s advance.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025 -
In Nigeria alone, more than 3.2 million acres of tree cover have disappeared since 2000 in a global deforestation crisis that has wiped out nearly 1.2 billion acres in two decades.—
Ogar Monday,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 May 2025
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The seven-time Super Bowl champion was sacked 565 times in 335 games as quarterback, which is good for a 4.48 sack percentage.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
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Did Elmo get sacked as a result of President Trump’s attempts to defund public media?—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
8 May 2025
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Spence said Casey’s plans to tear down and replace the existing fence, but did not say at what height.—
Marie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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As a result, homes and municipal buildings have aged and deteriorated but were not torn down and replaced.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
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The Bucks likely wouldn’t stop there, perhaps looking to plunder young players such as Ayo Dosunmu and Matas Buzelis to flesh out a restart without Antetokounmpo.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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In 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the medieval statue of Our Lady of Walsingham (a classic Madonna and child) was plundered then lost to time.—
Lamorna Ash,
The Dial,
6 May 2025
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Hamas has acknowledged executing individuals accused of looting and announced a 5,000-member force to combat armed criminals.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
19 May 2025
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All of the 37 public hospitals in Khartoum have been severely damaged and looted, Saad said.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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An embarrassing, humbling, shocking Game 5 defeat showed that. All the same problems, the ones that destroyed Leaf team after Leaf team and ultimately ended Sheldon Keefe’s time as head coach, are emerging again at the worst possible time.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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In order to retrieve the original source code of the Entity and destroy it, Hunt has to risk life and limb and dive into icy arctic waters to a sunken Soviet submarine teetering 500 feet underwater.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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Terrified of the prospect of communist victory, Washington sabotaged the 1954 Geneva Accords, which had called for national elections, and supported an anti-communist government in the South.—
Leo Tran,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2025
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The timing of the lie, and the inevitability that it would be exposed, strongly suggest her false accusation was planned to sabotage Paul’s other case on the eve of trial — deliberately engineered to inflict maximum damage and sway media and public opinion.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
8 May 2025
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On Sunday, the editorial staff of Télé Pluriel in the Delmas 19 neighborhood, said heavily armed gang members had broken through the station’s main barrier sometime during the night and set fire to its premises while also pillaging their offices.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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Uh uh, method dressing is forever, at least for Timothée Chalamet—until the next role-of-a-lifetime comes along, or the parcels of Bob Dylan ephemera pillaged from the online auction houses stop coming through the young actor’s door that is.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Spoliate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliate. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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