flattened

Example Sentences

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Five days after powerful back-to-back quakes flattened entire neighborhoods of multi-story buildings in the coastal state of La Guaira, hopes of finding survivors are fading.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

The disaster left thousands sleeping outdoors, flattened neighborhoods from Caracas’s tightly packed districts to the ocean-view communities on the Caribbean, and exposed the country’s crumbling emergency-response system after years of economic collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Business investment flattened in real terms immediately after 2016, and notably underperformed various measures of UK long term-trends and comparisons with other countries.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

Today you are told that you are just a citizen of the world, that we all buy stuff from the same national retailers that are part of a big antiseptic, flattened culture.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026

The little dust devil flattened into a trail.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young