devastating
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The outcome—guilty on all three counts—struck Jill as both devastating and unfair, given that such charges rarely go to trial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The devastating 2025 wildfires, along with enduring problems of homelessness, declining city infrastructure and traffic, have exacerbated discontent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Brain tumors are one of the most devastating consequences of cancer’s spread—hard to treat and highly deadly.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
There have been many devastating school fires in Kenya, where boarding schools are common as a colonial legacy of missionaries and the British.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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