devastating
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This ‘Frontline’ special investigates the continued toll of the debilitating disease, long a devastating hazard of mining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
It's a devastating prospect in a country where flooding from monsoon rains and some 20 tropical storms per year has emerged as one of the main disaster risks.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
For people living with rare, devastating genetic conditions, the benefits of gene therapy may clearly outweigh the potential dangers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
As Chinese military pressure increases, Taiwan is pouring billions of dollars into aerial and sea drones, which have been widely used in Russia's war in Ukraine and in the Strait of Hormuz with devastating effect.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
They fought in Sherman’s devastating “March to the Sea” and in the last battle of the Civil War at the Battle of Columbus on the Georgia-Alabama border.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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