decimation

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Amid the decimation of many other local retail businesses, one could take over storefronts in heavily trafficked areas for cheap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Food and Agriculture Organization as part of its decimation of the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

It was about a chimp and the decimation of his habitat.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

The destructive and life-threatening fires have caused near-total decimation of the Pacific Palisades.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025

Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond