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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

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

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

"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

The motive that shears the trees also razes the copse, in order that the gardener or "improver" may show his art.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

Through the trunks, we get the occasional glimpse of the razed farmland which tightly fences this pocket of protected woodland.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

The Eastlands did not yet know it, but the gatehouse had been razed by the flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

There is much speculation, as might be imagined, as to whether we shall remain at Norfolk, now that it is razed, or whither we might go.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

They contented themselves with pulling down the walls, razing the fortifications, and destroying every mark which would make of the city anything but an aggregate of miserable dwellings.

From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by William Klapp Williams