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Across elite enclaves, ultrawealthy buyers are paying eye-popping prices for relatively new homes—only to immediately demolish them to secure irreplaceable land for custom builds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The board has the responsibility to maintain the building that houses the center, but not to demolish the building and erect a new one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The attorney “had sort of written the playbook about how to demolish any case against these men,” said O’Brien, author of the recently published “Errol Flynn: The True Story of Australia’s Hollywood Icon.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Israeli army radio said the two-week timeline to demolish the house was an "unprecedented record time".

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Agents would tear off each key after using it and then burn or otherwise demolish it.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

And he demolishes his own ego by throwing himself into something wild and capricious headfirst.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

But “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

"If the government demolishes our houses, at least give us a solution. Tell us where to go. We don't know where to go," she said.

From BBC ● May 3, 2024

Tyler Locklear demolishes a baseball that was easily the hardest-hit in live BP today, landing beyond the white trucks over the left-field wall.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Woo demolishes the cinnamon dip with one sweeping lick.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

But after tenant advocates warned that rent-controlled apartments would be demolished and homeowners complained that density threatened historic neighborhoods, Bass restricted the locations eligible for the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

They hired an attorney and expected a court fight but instead reached a confidential settlement to sell the property to the utility to be demolished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

I lived in Santa Monica for a while, then after the earthquake my place was demolished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But Warrington snuck past Leeds Rhinos, and Wakefield Trinity then stunned the whole of rugby league as they demolished Wigan on the Warriors' own patch to make it to Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The go-cart sped into the street, where it was first crushed by the Cadillac, then demolished entirely by the Ford, which blared its horn loudly and screeched to a stop.

From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper

In elite enclaves like Palm Beach, billionaire buyers are demolishing even relatively new houses to secure prime lots for their own custom builds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Of the options for what to do with it once bought, demolishing the site was out of the question for historians.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Anta collaborated with Chinese scientists to develop a type of foam cushion made with nitrogen that provides extra bounciness—all but demolishing Nike’s competitive moat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Sabastian Sawe wasn’t the only winner Sunday when he became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in a legal race, demolishing the world record at the London Marathon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Unfortunately, his success in demolishing the supposed antipathy between garlic and magnets remained hidden from history until very recently; it is della Porta who established the new fact within the world of learning, not Garzoni.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton