devastation
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Several hundred people are understood to have decided to stay in the war-torn city, despite widespread devastation and a lack of gas, electricity and running water.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
“It’s been really hard, working on skid row, seeing what’s going on there, and coming here to see this devastation, too,” Ruffin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Founded 150 years ago, the Florida Yacht Club in Jacksonville used the devastation of Hurricane Irma and a Covid-19 operational pause to rethink its offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"There is such devastation in the housing estate itself but also in the wider community in Waterford city."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Stormhold itself was perched high in the sky, where the thunder clouds gathered before they went down to the lower air, spilling rain and lightning and devastation upon the place beneath.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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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
Yet their devastations greatly thinned the population of northern Greece, and after 1084 Thessaly was occupied without resistance by nomad tribes of Vlachs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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