devastation

"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

By then, fire had ravaged the community; the report suggests that incident commanders were unaware of the devastation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

But despite the overwhelming death and devastation, such cultural losses run deep.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

He’ll remember how that was nothing compared to the complete devastation on Daniel’s face when he learned the news about Natasha.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

A gifted, relentless self-promoter, he devoted his picaresque life to convincing people that he, as visionary truth-teller, would repeatedly rise from life’s devastations to triumph over the opprobrium of a blinkered society.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019

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