demolition
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While he had initially expected the project to cost $15,000, the final bill for the demolition and replacement totaled $20,000.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
"I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock, and it'll happen over a period of four hours -- if we wanted to."
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
The “restart timeline is a stubborn mule,” Raj told MarketWatch, and “repumping the battered energy heart is a multiyear demolition derby, not a weekend DIY.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
"It's one of the mills that's never been touched, as in redevelopment, but there's only one thing now - demolition, I think," one man said.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
Twenty years earlier, he explained, he’d been with a friend who was driving a car at a demolition derby.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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