shredding

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It was an off-speed pitch first derived from the forkball that hadn’t been popular since the age of the Walkman—and its reputation for shredding elbows had given it a stigma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The main challenge comes from contamination introduced during the vehicle shredding process.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the UN health agency, while shredding economies, crippling health systems and turning people's lives upside-down.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Across 18 months they played some exhilarating cricket, shredding bowling attacks.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam