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Opponents say the sharp reduction or elimination of property taxes would decimate funding for key areas, including education, public safety and infrastructure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They also procured, with much difficulty and at a high price, a quantity of lemons, for preventing or curing the scurvy, that terrible disease which decimates crews in the icy regions.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

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

Shoppers could hardly find eggs in stores early last year, a period when producers said avian flu had decimated the hen population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Chief Opechancanough did mount one more large attack on the settlers, in 1644, but by then the European population had grown and the Indian population had been decimated.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

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

However, when wasting disease effectively wiped out their main predator, the sea urchins exploded in number, decimating kelp forests and transforming once-lush underwater habitats into so-called “urchin barrens.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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