wreckage

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Recent Examples of wreckage Emergency officials said victims were pulled from the wreckage in just over two hours. Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025 Footage captured the wreckage of a funicular railway crash in Portugal's capital that local authorities said killed 17 people and left nearly two dozen with injuries. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 People can also get coverage for other physical losses, like possessions lost in flood wreckage. Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025 Young, impassioned volunteer Omar (Mataz Malhees) first answers the call from Rajab, who’s hiding from IDF soldiers in the wreckage of her car, surrounded by the dead bodies of her uncle, aunt and four cousins. Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wreckage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wreckage
Noun
  • Rosie O'Donnell recalled her devastation over how her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres fell apart more than 20 years ago.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, moves toward open Saudi diplomatic recognition of Israel were stopped by Hamas’ attack and the global backlash that followed Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza.
    David Mednicoff, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Schools, churches, small shops that survived the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 are now a pile of rubble, part of the apocalyptic landscape left behind by the retreating forces that control almost all of Haiti’s capital.
    Johnny Fils-Aimé, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said an infant's body was pulled from the rubble in the Darnytskyi district, where a four-story apartment building was damaged.
    Lidia Kelly, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The wrecking begins when Carey (Marvin), Paul’s best friend, ill-advisedly sleeps with Julie—and then, more ill-advisedly still, confesses it to Paul the next day.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Critical wildlife habitat may be put at risk for alteration or wholesale destruction.
    Ryan Gellert, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But tenants have little legal footing to stand on in combating that destruction.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Vipsun Cordless Vacuum Run the vacuum over hard floors and carpets to suck up dirt, pet hair, dust, crumbs and other debris.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Second, wind can blow dust, leaves, sticks, and other debris onto your wet stain, leaving a mess that is nearly impossible to clean up.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Four people — Amanda Benson, a commercial pilot; Kameilia Chavez, a flight nurse; Nicholas Mancuso, a flight paramedic; and Jeffrey Tuning, a commercial pilot — were killed in the wreck.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Except Steven gets in a car wreck in episode two of season three, and trauma slams Belly and Jeremiah back together.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While not all of the federal government’s tariff revenue is at risk, losing a huge chunk would still create havoc on the deficit and bond market.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Steve gently coaxes him back to school, where the film crew is causing havoc.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean just south of France's Corsica, is famed for its beaches and ancient ruins.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Well, or how the ancient ruins of Petra stole the show in the final scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
    Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wreckage. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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