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Temperatures are rising and normally rainy Salzburg now worries about water shortage and the environmental ravage of over-tourism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Now we’re told artificial intelligence will ravage humanity like a zombie apocalypse, so let’s ban data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

“Christian forgiveness does not demand we allow the cruel to ravage the whole earth; it demands we love our enemies,” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

‘You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The corps was far more numerous than the populations of the villages on its route; its ravages cleaned out food stores that local peoples counted on for survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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 mayor of Suakin dreams of a rebirth for his town, an ancient Red Sea port spared by the wars that have marked Sudan's history but reduced to ruins by the ravages of time.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

They experience the same ravages of time, and they’re subject to the same echo chambers that the modern digital experience demands.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Thus, tiny devices that can travel along capillaries to enter and repair living tissue; the ability to heal disease, reverse the ravages of age, or make human bodies speedier and stronger than before.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

For 20 years, its orange groves have been ravaged by an incurable disease that causes fruit to drop before it is ripe, and leaves it tasting bitter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The war has displaced millions of people, ravaged Ukraine's economy, put Russia's military under massive strain and has led to the expanded use of drone warfare.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

The lack of water has ravaged grasslands and left ranchers unable to grow enough hay, forcing them to buy feed for their cows at high prices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The blaze broke out for reasons still unknown in an area that was ravaged by massive fires in 1911, during a similar period of heatwaves.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The entire sky garden was beyond recognition, burned and charred as though an unseen force had ravaged every iota of life there.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The ravaging of the museum reflects the destruction seen across Khartoum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Such is the vast scale of the infernos ravaging France's south-western Gironde region, that it is not always obvious what direction the smoke is coming from.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The wildfires ravaging areas around Spain's capital Madrid have included the largest forest fire in the country's recent history, Sara Aagesen, Minister for Ecological Transition, told journalists.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

After a second Opium War, the Tientsin Treaties legalized the ravaging opium trade, legalized a British-French-American control of China’s customs.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey