ravaged
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He toured Pacific Palisades in January 2025 after the L.A. neighborhood and Altadena were ravaged by wildfires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
In what must have been an excruciating effort, he had pulled a neat white dress shirt and tie over his ravaged chest.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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