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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

We had little sleep each night, not knowing when the bulldozers would come to raze our home.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

"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

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

In 2017, the actor filed a request to have the existing property razed so that he could build a new home on the same site; however, his application was denied.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 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

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

The BBC's Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and "a sea of black" in the village of Bédar, in southern Spain's Almería province.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

I’m stuffing schoolbooks into my backpack the next morning when I see that Dad’s Scrabble-tile towers have been razed.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

The Mosquito fire ignited Sept. 6, 2022, near the Oxbow Reservoir and spread across 76,788 acres, razing 78 structures and damaging 13 more, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

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. 11, 2026

They are talking of razing the admirable chapel of Vincennes, in order to make, with its stones, some fortification, which Daumesnil did not need, however.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood