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devastation

[dev-uh-stey-shuhn] / ˌdɛv əˈsteɪ ʃən /


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Osinski said it would cause "regional devastation on a scale that would wipe out major cities and have global climate impacts."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

And "a glacier disaster in one country can lead to devastation in another as we saw with the recent tragedy of China and Nepal".

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed posted on Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years after the attack.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

“The 9/11 attacks caused devastation that extended far beyond that single day,” 9/11 Memorial & Museum Chairman Michael Bloomberg said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

There, mayor Kotaku Wamura, who had seen the devastation caused by the 1933 tsunami, had insisted that the village’s floodgate be 51 feet tall.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

They are still hurting, still missing the loved ones they lost, and they must surely be forever on alert for similar devastations that could come and upend their lives again.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Indus River, which caused much of the devastations in Sindh, is now at normal levels, though authorities say it will take another two months to completely drain the water.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

For all of its devastations, the war helped feed his interest in architecture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

It lends a discordant note to this riotous, hilarious book, which achieves depth through Brown’s strong feeling for both the quiet and the noisy devastations wrought by ambition, fame, personal tragedy and time.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2020

I hold that their multiplication and their devastations are largely incited by the degeneracy of our plants caused by the badness of our culture.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley




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