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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

At least 18 people have been killed and 19 injured as South Korea's wildfires continue to ravage the country's southeast, according to the latest numbers from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

Wind speeds dipped slightly Thursday morning in Los Angeles County, offering a brief respite for firefighters battling the deadly wildfires that have continued to ravage the region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

There were no baboons or porcupines or wild pigs to ravage it, as there had been at the other place.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

McLaughlin hopes the designations will allow the trust to make its nature reserves "more resilient to the ravages of climate change" by restoring habitats and creating wildlife corridors beyond the boundaries of the reserves.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

The Godzilla movies, whether American or Japanese, are metaphors for the ravages of warmongering and the despondence of those powerless to escape its wrath.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 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

And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Welcome to the challenges of writing the history of the Black Death, the great pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the late medieval world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The year before, his hometown of Mexico City had been ravaged by a massive earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Somalia last held a one-person, one-vote election in 1969 and has been ravaged by civil war for more than 30 years.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

It prevents their deportation to their home country, one of the poorest in the world and one ravaged by political instability, economic crisis and gang violence.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Race issues still scarred civil society, certainly, but one problem that Americans were happy to live without was the blight that ravaged Europe in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: militant nationalism.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

"Chronic stressors daily can have a really ravaging effect on people."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Palantir’s CTO stated AI inference signals “the death of legacy software,” making its platform useful but ravaging others.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

In Cameroon, he denounced the “chains of corruption” that stand in the way of peace and justice, and accused a “handful of tyrants” of ravaging the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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