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

She is one of nine players from outside California witnessing the decimation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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

On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin to try to reconcile our split-screen moment: democracy being seen to be done, and the looming decimation of democracy.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2024

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