decimation
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“If we do a 99% decimation, that’s no good,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Ransone appeared in all 12 episodes of the show’s second season, which focused on the decimation of the city’s docks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
What is beyond doubt is the decimation of a family who have been a source of fascination and speculation in their native Norway and far beyond.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
Hawaii's Native population also similarly faced cultural decimation and social and economic marginalization as Puerto Rico after the U.S. staged a coup in 1893 against the sovereign country and annexed Hawaii in 1898.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2025
Thirdly, mass extinctions akin to the archetypal Australian decimation occurred again and again in the ensuing millennia—whenever people settled another part of the Outer World.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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