tearing

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Appeared in the August 5, 2025, print edition as 'The Teenagers Tearing Up The 100-Meter Race'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 2, 2025

"Tearing others down is never a good look, especially when everyone involved has worked to make the process as fair and constructive as possible."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

Tearing up when he testified earlier this month, he said he’d not only lost money but trust.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Tearing the mozzarella into irregular shapes and crushing the canned tomatoes by hand produces bits of different sizes that will bake into pleasantly varied textures in the oven.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Tearing down the old and starting again from scratch is what revolutions are all about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton