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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

Paramount would not look to raze its celebrated studio lot — the oldest operating film studio in Los Angeles — because of various restrictions on historic buildings there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 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

Should she decide to raze the existing dwelling, she may find herself facing some resistance, given its impressive architectural pedigree.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 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

"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

He razed the existing residence to build his own custom 9,700-square-fooot megamansion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Satellite imagery indicates the port buildings have been almost completely razed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

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

The demolition of uptown Alexandra had resumed, and it seemed the landlord wanted to make as much money as he could before his yard, too, was razed.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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 whole troop, however, bunked in a small fourth building because this would not be in process of razing.

From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh