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The only option to build the facility was to demolish the Trojans’ longtime baseball field and displace the program for multiple seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

In one seaside community, graffiti outside a collapsed building asked authorities not to demolish it until the families could recover nine bodies buried under the rubble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

"How can they be looking to demolish everything without knowing if people are still under there?" she said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Dietmar Arnold, chairman of the Berlin Underworlds Association, told the BBC it would be "absolute madness" to demolish the bunker.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

"Watch that temper, that's discipline, too. Learn to demolish your brotherly opponents with ideas, with polemic skill. The other is for our enemies. Save it for them. And go get some rest."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

But “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

While robotics have advanced, and AI demolishes service industries, the idea of a “lights out” factory — meaning there are no human workers — is not quite there yet.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024

The city offers $4,500 or two months rent if a landlord demolishes or substantially remodels a building, but only one month’s rent in other cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

"If the government demolishes our houses, at least give us a solution. Tell us where to go. We don't know where to go," she said.

From BBC ● May 3, 2024

Woo demolishes the cinnamon dip with one sweeping lick.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Entire communities have been swept away, roads destroyed, and homes demolished.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Law demolished the arguments of the miasmists, marshaling data to show that local eruptions of equine flu were unrelated to temperature, elevation, soil conditions, changes in weather or any of the other widely touted causes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

They demolished Manchester City in the Community Shield with some pure football, and played some nice stuff against Coventry too, but then they were able to grind out a win at Aston Villa as well.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The administration demolished the old East Wing last year and began replacing it with a new structure that includes an underground military installation and an aboveground ballroom.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

He could tell it was beautiful, straight on target, even though he couldn’t watch its progress, because he was dumped violently to the ground by Carter who had somehow recovered after being demolished.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Of the options for what to do with it once bought, demolishing the site was out of the question for historians.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

“We’re encouraging people to spread out and support independent businesses rather than all going to one place and demolishing the kitchen.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

But they dreaded demolishing the 800-square-foot cabin because it held such strong family memories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The president has also made a permanent mark on the White House itself, demolishing the East Wing of the building as part of his plans to build a ballroom.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

When she put up the post, written after a visit to Ranyinudo’s office, about the governments demolishing of hawkers’ shacks, an anonymous commenter wrote, This is like poetry.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie