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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Citrini selloff latched onto the market’s recent paranoia that artificial intelligence could ravage established players in a range of industries.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

The Antonine Plague, perhaps a form of smallpox, had begun to ravage the empire, as it would for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

The parents said the fire service arrived "really quickly" but it had "felt like forever" as they were watching the fire ravage their home.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

What springs into my mind are those news reports about tornadoes or fires, how they’ll ravage one house but leave the one next door intact.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

They have found one of the healthiest, most diverse reefs in the region, free from the ravages of the stoney coral disease plaguing the Caribbean.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

“The arduous reparation from the ravages of the pandemic are all but complete, with the shares now having exceeded the record highs achieved in 2018,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

An insightful Film Paradise video essay explains its meaning as coded to Derry’s reigning anxieties in 1962, specifically the ravages of nuclear fallout and radiation.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

Time had some- what repaired the ravages of hunger and I was able to meet the required physical weight.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The country was hit by an exceptional heatwave in 2021, enabling wildfires that ravaged large parts of northern Evia, an island close to Athens, and destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of forest.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

A massive fire that ravaged 42,000 hectares near Bordeaux in southwestern France was stabilised thanks to "favourable" overnight conditions, the local prefecture said early Friday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Gironde is one of several French departments ravaged by wildfires in recent days, due to a series of unusual and prolonged heatwaves.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The floods come a year after the region was ravaged by floodwaters over the Fourth of July weekend in a disaster that killed more than 100 people, including 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

As soon as Lyra could move, she reached out trembling for the harpy and put her arms around her neck, kissing and kissing her ravaged face.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

For the past week, firefighters have been tackling a series of wildfires ravaging the Spanish countryside, threatening dozens of communities and forcing more than 70,000 people to evacuate their homes.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Tour de France organisers announced that they were shortening the following day's final stage of the cycling race due to the wildfires ravaging southwest France.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Even worse, the people ravaging the sport don’t even have the decency to pretend to like bowling.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

With high inflation ravaging the economy, Greenspan recoiled when he learned Ford’s advisers planned a grassroots movement to encourage personal savings by passing out buttons that proclaimed, “Whip Inflation Now.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

After all these years, the beast still laid claim to him, ravaging his body like an incurable sickness.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray