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decimate

[des-uh-meyt] / ˈdɛs əˌmeɪt /


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He also called concerns that AI will decimate jobs worldwide "complete nonsense".

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Software stocks dropped on Friday after digital-payments company Block announced it is slashing more than 4,000 employees — further fueling fears that artificial intelligence could decimate employee head counts and hurt demand for software.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

The departures could decimate an office already struggling to deal with the surge in immigration enforcement, said B. Todd Jones, a former U.S. attorney for Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

Critics of the plans say the changes will decimate the Samaritans' work in local communities and have accused the charity's leadership of repeatedly ignoring requests to provide the rationale for the plans.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2025

Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to local or even global extinction.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2024

Of the 10 current members, Colorado is the only school the Pac-12 can lose in the realignment game without triggering either mass panic or a rush to the door that decimates the league.

From Seattle Times Jul. 27, 2023

A farm group has called on the Federal Trade Commission to launch a price-gouging probe into the country’s top egg producer as avian flu decimates the number of hens nationwide.

From Washington Times Jan. 24, 2023

He marries, has children and watches helplessly as the plague decimates his family.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2021

It takes them wherever it can find them, from the faction which decimated it before Thermidor and which, since Thermidor, it decimates.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

Wildfires turbocharged by the heat and lack of rain decimated France and Spain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

I did, I tell him, but I’m worried we’re not too far off from a decimated world.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

This deadly strain of bird flu has already decimated wild bird and mammal populations worldwide.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

Kilbane added: "To a county decimated with emigration for centuries but always having a love for home. This one is for its people."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Ravka’s Grisha soldiers had been decimated during the war.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Dissent got louder after the twin quakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing over 6,000 people and decimating hundreds of buildings.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

"He was very good at just decimating your ability to make your own decisions and have your own autonomy. And it made you more and more dependent on him," she said.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Decades of offshoring affected the American apparel industry, decimating the profession.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

The rapper’s overhaul of the dwelling saw it reduced to little more than a concrete shell, decimating almost all of Ando’s original design — and leaving design lovers up in arms over its destruction.

From MarketWatch Mar. 3, 2026

Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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