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These waves, combined with an incoming long-period southerly swell, will cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Forecasters also expect strong rip currents and dangerous waves, which increase the risk of drowning for people swimming at the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Dairy farmers had to rip open silage clamps stored up for the winter to feed the cattle as the grass failed.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
So the company plotted an ambitious pivot: It would rip up the rulebook and switch to selling fewer cars at a much higher price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“It will rip a hole in the Americans’ boat.”
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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"It rips your soul out," he told Reuters news agency.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
An alarm on his pager rips him from sleep at 1 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As a once-in-a-century storm rips the place apart, Tom’s conversion may have arrived too late for the town, its visitors and his family.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
The episode’s signature moment comes in a soliloquy from Gen Z hero Ava Daniels, in which she rips into the idea that A.I. is inevitable and talks about how we can and should fight it.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
“Dat Spitz fight lak hell,” said Perrault, as he surveyed the gaping rips and cuts.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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"Children's lives have been ripped apart in an instant yet again", the charity's director in Nepal, Tara Chettry, said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In 2019, they ripped one version out of Brooksville and rebuilt it from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Dramatic footage shows the moment a tornado ripped through the city of Marsala and nearby town Petrosino, in Sicily.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“I had a good feeling I was going to die,” Burns said of the incident that day, when he watched as the pilothouse, where the crew steers the ship, was ripped away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The sandal ripped from my foot and staked into the ground.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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A social media influencer accused of ripping off wealthy suitors is competent to stand trial in Los Angeles County on criminal charges that she seduced and stole from rich men, a judge announced Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
McDonald’s and other fast-food chains aren’t ripping out their kiosks and suspending mobile ordering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
States that gave data centers billions in tax breaks are now ripping up the deals.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Videos of first-time buyers ripping rare cards on TikTok have racked up millions of views, and new collectors have sprung up everywhere as a result of the fandom reaching fresh audiences on social media.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Furious, I went back to the storage room to finish ripping open a crate of canned Alaska salmon.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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