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Opponents warn the proposal would decimate funding for essential services and reduce local government fiscal autonomy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

He also called concerns that AI will decimate jobs worldwide "complete nonsense".

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Software stocks dropped on Friday after digital-payments company Block announced it is slashing more than 4,000 employees — further fueling fears that artificial intelligence could decimate employee head counts and hurt demand for software.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

In August, a documentary filmmaker, primary care physician and wildlife ecologist sued the government authorities overseeing the agencies, claiming the roundups will decimate the herd to the point where long-term survival is unlikely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

To decimate once meant “to slaughter every tenth one,” although it’s rarely used literally these days.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to local or even global extinction.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

“We can eradicate this insidious disease that decimates communities and extinguishes lives far too soon.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Farmers say it forces them to wait precious days for a servicer to arrive, a delay that could mean a hail storm decimates a crop or a farmer misses the ideal planting window.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

After the American army decimates the forces on Lubang Island, Onoda becomes the leader of a group of four remaining soldiers.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

I am not aware that the ship-fever, which sometimes decimates the emigrants from Europe, has ever prevailed in these African traders.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer

While Premier League teams see their squads decimated by international call-ups, it is not quite as dramatic in the Championship.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It’s based on Peter Heller’s 2012 novel and set in Colorado 10 years in the future after an aggressive flu has decimated much of the population.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

This deadly strain of bird flu has already decimated wild bird and mammal populations worldwide.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

Bigger chicken breeds and flocks not being decimated by disease over the summer have led to a glut in an industry that slaughters more than nine billion birds a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Having chased them for the better part of ten minutes, the hornets began the winding journey back to their decimated nest.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

"He was very good at just decimating your ability to make your own decisions and have your own autonomy. And it made you more and more dependent on him," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The rapper’s overhaul of the dwelling saw it reduced to little more than a concrete shell, decimating almost all of Ando’s original design — and leaving design lovers up in arms over its destruction.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

But Fibrebond’s factory burned to the ground in 1998, decimating its business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

The unique Bandon initiative in the country's south could provide a model for tackling Ireland's biggest environmental dilemma: how to cut emissions on farms without drastically shrinking herds or decimating rural communities.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025

Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents.

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