busted up

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“When’s the last time the feds busted up a card game? The 1920s?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Kosteniuk as White allows her queenside to be busted up and renounces castling in exchange for the bishop pair and a half-open b-file, but neither works to her advantage in the ensuring play.

From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2023

In addition to destroying command posts, bridges, ammo dumps, and other large, fixed targets, HiMARS has also busted up Russian artillery batteries, in some cases a minute after the Russians fired their rockets.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2022

Reshaping or obscuring a pavilion’s architecture as a historical indictment has been a reliable approach here since Hans Haacke busted up the German pavilion in 1993.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

Romero busted up an orange crate and used the wooden slats for a splint that he tied up with strips of old bed sheet.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko