decimate
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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
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
Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
In “The Last of Us” episode, Bill and Frank meet four years after a mysterious mutant cordyceps outbreak decimates humanity — not necessarily the ideal time for a meet-cute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
It takes them wherever it can find them, from the faction which decimated it before Thermidor and which, since Thermidor, it decimates.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
I did, I tell him, but I’m worried we’re not too far off from a decimated world.
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
Diseases such as bird flu, which have previously decimated flocks, haven’t been as much of a factor in key chicken-raising regions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
"Indeed! With my plague! Half of Europe was decimated by the Black Death, forcing society to evolve! If not for that, you would still be digging for roots, a serf forever bound to your master."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Dissent got louder after the twin quakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing over 6,000 people and decimating hundreds of buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
But Fibrebond’s factory burned to the ground in 1998, decimating its business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
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
Hurricane Melissa has continued its devastating sweep across the Caribbean, decimating homes and infrastructure, flooding neighbourhoods and leaving dozens dead.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
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