decimate

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Investors have also been piling into bond markets on fears that AI advances will decimate the job market, while hotter-than-expected producer prices have clouded hopes for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

The departures could decimate an office already struggling to deal with the surge in immigration enforcement, said B. Todd Jones, a former U.S. attorney for Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Critics of the plans say the changes will decimate the Samaritans' work in local communities and have accused the charity's leadership of repeatedly ignoring requests to provide the rationale for the plans.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

Why didn’t Native American diseases instead decimate the Spanish invaders, spread back to Europe, and wipe out 95 percent of Europe’s population?

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

Read: Our correspondent in France recommends “Station Eleven,” about a traveling troupe performing Shakespeare after a pandemic decimates 99.9 percent of humanity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

A farm group has called on the Federal Trade Commission to launch a price-gouging probe into the country’s top egg producer as avian flu decimates the number of hens nationwide.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

Coffee leaf rust is a fungus that decimates coffee plants, often leaving farmers with few choices: cut down their crop and replant, plant something else, or give up the farm.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

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 Mayer, Brantz

Kilbane added: "To a county decimated with emigration for centuries but always having a love for home. This one is for its people."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Boycotts of U.S. whiskey have decimated a key economic driver for the American South.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

But the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes on June 24 decimated the city, with mountains of rubble replacing the high-rise buildings that once lined the coast.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

Past marine heat waves have decimated California’s kelp, “with bull kelp habitats declining 90% in Northern California since 2014,” Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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

But that goal isn’t served by decimating one company and hobbling the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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 ● Dec. 11, 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

The Eaton fire, driven by a perfect storm of hurricane-force winds, cut through large swaths of neighborhoods, at times decimating entire blocks of homes and even large business structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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