drained
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Polymarket paused trading on Thursday after some users of the prediction-market platform reported that their accounts had been drained of funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The culvert once drained waste water from King James VI Hospital, which was built around 1749-1750 and was converted into flats in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“To Catch a Predator” drained some of the humanity from TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But these sights are drained of their warmth, depicted with a cold, eerie hum that, when it bleeds into the roar of suffering miles away, becomes a deafening cacophony.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
When the chest came to land and they got out, to see no sign of life anywhere, only a wild waste of waters, Zeus pitied them and drained off the flood.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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