raze
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According to reports, he plans to raze the other two properties—for which he paid a combined $147 million—and live in the most recent purchase while awaiting construction to be completed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Melton said it pains him to raze the downtown convention center, built in 1981, because it was the brainchild of the city’s first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Less than a year after watching flames raze his home in the Altadena foothills, Ted Koerner has moved into a brand new house, one of the first to rebuild in this Los Angeles suburb.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
It was only on Wednesday, a full two days after the demolition had started, that the administration admitted that the plan was to raze the entire East Wing.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025
They are going to raze the Time and a Half Pool Hall, where feet in long tan shoes once pointed down from chair rungs.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
Amy and Danny's energy toward one another trades sweetness and consideration for the type of unhinged passion that razes lives to nothing but ash.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
Today, 73 percent of Arlington’s residentially zoned land is single-family, meaning that if a developer razes a house, it may be replaced only with another single-family house.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
It gives a rundown of the heat-related climate impacts on the UK, with "Britain on fire", "homes razed" and "drought declared".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The land razed by wildfires in Indonesia so far this year is double the area burnt in 2023.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Before the home was fully razed, Franklin snapped up the land on which it sat for $6 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Last January, Spencer Pratt’s house in Pacific Palisades was razed by the raging flames of the Palisades Fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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In 2021 the Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for land at a former racetrack in nearby Arlington Heights, with the intention of razing the existing facility and building a new stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The two largest blazes—the Palisades fire and the Eaton fire—ripped through entire communities, razing hundreds of properties, many of which remain nothing more than empty lots.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
The "Black Summer" bushfires raged across Australia's eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
One by one, the anchors holding people in place - home, community, family - have been loosened by the constant uprooting of Gaza's population and the razing of its neighbourhoods and streets.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
The deposit is here in the form of a small mountain and the operations are gradually razing this landmark to the level of the surrounding plains.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin
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