decimate

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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

ASML’s American counterparts have thrived while software stocks have been decimated.

From Barron's

But the price she paid was exorbitant — in her words, a life “decimated by grief and loss and exile.”

From Los Angeles Times

The talks are the latest diplomatic bid to halt the fighting which has killed hundreds of thousands, forced millions to flee and decimated much of eastern and southern Ukraine.

From Barron's

“It’s bad enough our community was decimated by a fire Edison started,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times