detonation
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The detonation is part of an $80 million blight elimination campaign targeting 7,000 abandoned homes and businesses, in a city that has lost more than half its population since its 1960 peak of 180,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the instant of detonation, an exhausted Dickman was drifting in and out of sleep, his feet resting on luggage.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
A controlled detonation has been carried out on a large World War Two bomb found at a building site.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
The report suggested possible causes for the premature fuze detonation but determined that military personnel were not at fault.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
But the detonation creates some tectonic shift in the building’s rubble, and there is a snap followed by multiple cascades in the darkness.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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