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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

“It takes a village to raze a camp.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

"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

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

Detroit Blight Busters builds and renovates homes, but also razes homes seen as blights on their neighborhoods.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021

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

Our quick-returning folly cancels all; As the tide rushing razes what is writ In yielding sands, and smooths the letter’d shore.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Local authorities deployed two water-bombing helicopters against the flames that have razed at least 127 hectares of national park land to date, fire official Bambang Setyo Antoko told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 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

It’s a different story around the corner, where residents of Imperial Avalon Mobile Estates got word in 2019 that their park would be sold, razed and developed into apartments and shops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

To protect the below-ground bunker, the government will need to build a structure on top of it to replace the one it razed, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

In the last photograph, a bulldozer razed the dirt to even the terrain, flattening the landscape like a popped bubble.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Instead, the city decided it could spend about $5.6 million razing them and prepping the hill for 100-plus multifamily units.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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. 11, 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

By Disarmament I mean the razing of the French fortifications and the abolition of the standing army, except that minimum of force required for purposes of police.

From The Duel Between France and Germany by Charles Sumner