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most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters
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Recent Examples of wrecked
Edie Peffley, NBC news, 19 May 2026
The three adults on board — pilot Hernán Murcia, Indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández and Magdalena — were found dead when Colombian soldiers located the wrecked plane two weeks after the crash.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
In recent days, refugees have begun returning to wrecked villages and towns.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
The firefighters took three injured people out of the wrecked car.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The wrecked car was overturned with the nude model sleeping inside—playing dead with help from a mild sedative.
—Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 30 Mar. 2026
In San Francisco, the wrecked husk of the Golden Gate Bridge looms in the background as a perpetual reminder that this isn’t quite our history.
—Zaki Hasan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
Helicopter footage showed the man darting out from the wrecked Charger in a black T-shirt and white shorts.
—Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2026
The chase ended when the suspect crashed and ran from the wrecked vehicle, officials said.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Injuries to integral players have wrecked the roster and some reinforcements Brown signed this winter have not stepped up in their absence.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 25 May 2026
My body is wrecked, my lower back is f---ed, but nothing is broken, which feels like a miracle.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Then, in October, the pace picked up; over just a few days, a series of explosions wrecked a police monument in Chicago, the Marin County Hall of Justice, a Queens courthouse, and the Harvard Center for International Affairs.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Police found Berry’s vehicle, along with personal items inside, wrecked in the driveway – but Berry was not at the home, the warrant says.
—Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Elliott, who started 14th, had already taken the white flag when John Hunter Nemechek wrecked in the back of the field after contact with Kyle Busch.
—ABC News, 3 May 2026
Two cars were wrecked and two people suffered injuries in a crash on busy Irving Park Road in the neighborhood of the same name early Monday morning.
—Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Girls getting wrecked on prom night?
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
For days, no one connected the wrecked car to Marcus.
—Edie Peffley, NBC news, 19 May 2026
The three adults on board — pilot Hernán Murcia, Indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández and Magdalena — were found dead when Colombian soldiers located the wrecked plane two weeks after the crash.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
In recent days, refugees have begun returning to wrecked villages and towns.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
The firefighters took three injured people out of the wrecked car.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The wrecked car was overturned with the nude model sleeping inside—playing dead with help from a mild sedative.
—Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 30 Mar. 2026
In San Francisco, the wrecked husk of the Golden Gate Bridge looms in the background as a perpetual reminder that this isn’t quite our history.
—Zaki Hasan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
Helicopter footage showed the man darting out from the wrecked Charger in a black T-shirt and white shorts.
—Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2026
The chase ended when the suspect crashed and ran from the wrecked vehicle, officials said.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Verb
These two didn't get along great for a long period after Kyle wrecked Junior at Richmond.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Injuries to integral players have wrecked the roster and some reinforcements Brown signed this winter have not stepped up in their absence.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 25 May 2026
My body is wrecked, my lower back is f---ed, but nothing is broken, which feels like a miracle.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Then, in October, the pace picked up; over just a few days, a series of explosions wrecked a police monument in Chicago, the Marin County Hall of Justice, a Queens courthouse, and the Harvard Center for International Affairs.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Police found Berry’s vehicle, along with personal items inside, wrecked in the driveway – but Berry was not at the home, the warrant says.
—Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Elliott, who started 14th, had already taken the white flag when John Hunter Nemechek wrecked in the back of the field after contact with Kyle Busch.
—ABC News, 3 May 2026
Two cars were wrecked and two people suffered injuries in a crash on busy Irving Park Road in the neighborhood of the same name early Monday morning.
—Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Girls getting wrecked on prom night?
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrecked
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The Marlins stranded 13 runners on the day.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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All told, that meant the women were stranded in Paris through the summer to November.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
Verb
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Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed more than 350 Ukrainian drones over territories both close to the border but also as further afield as Moscow, St Petersburg, and Novgorod in the country’s west, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Twelve people were killed, including two young boys, in the southeastern city of Dnipro, where a four-story apartment building was partially destroyed, local officials said.—
Valentyn Ogirenko,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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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
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When French ships carrying troops were spotted off the Georgia coast, British forces scuttled at least six ships in the Savannah River downstream from the city to block the French vessels.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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That included Philip Glass, who scuttled a new symphony, Lincoln, that was to premiere in June.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
Verb
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The former Iowa Hawkeyes star shattered scoring records in college, transformed women's basketball into a national phenomenon and has continued rewriting the WNBA record book since arriving in 2024.—
Jon Root OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2026
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The team features Megan Grant, the Bruins' two-sport athlete who shattered Lauren Espinoza's 31-year-old single-season home run record in the Big Ten Softball Tournament and extended it to 40 home runs, outlasting Oklahoma's Kendall Wells for the record.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Over Your Dead Body follows a married couple whose relationship is beyond shipwrecked.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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In 1543 several Portuguese were shipwrecked on the island of Tanega, off southern Kyushu.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Israeli forces now control large areas in southern Lebanon and have demolished homes and historical sites.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Two other properties were purchased in 2024, one of which was a barbershop that was demolished, and a third property was purchased in 2025.—
Delia Rose Sauer,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Little did the Rays know at the time, but a trade for Ohtani would have left them devastated.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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Three men in Hawaii were killed within 48 hours, leaving devastated families in mourning and a terrified community on edge as police hunt for the suspect.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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