ruin
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“It’s a shame, if it’s going to ruin an entire neighborhood,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I definitely think it's not healthy. It may not be fair for those who have to play late because it does ruin your schedule."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
And then that’s all I could think about while I was doing it, and I was on a road to ruin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Their financial advisers are pushing products that purport to offer better returns than money-market funds, after taxes, but limit the chance a market swoon will ruin their long-awaited retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
In Nuwakot, AFP photographers on Tuesday saw people scouring through mud into the rubble of their homes for usable items, some clearing away dirt and stringing up plastic sheeting for shelter in the ruins.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Before firefighters had finished extinguishing the blaze, I found Liliya Velyka, a 28-year-old book blogger, raking through the smouldering ruins, seeing if anything could be saved.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He said he recovered nothing from the ruins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The slim book explores American mysticism and a moral framework in ruins as his clan zigzags from Kansas to South Carolina, Illinois and elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I remember those ruins: they seemed scary, all gray, crumbling stone and spider webs.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Watching the stop-motion monsters climb over ruined walls to poke at Greece’s elite soldiers, it’s easy to forgive the movie for its less-than-stellar dubbing or borderline nonsensical love story.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I do because it ruined everything, it ruined my life,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“At first I hated her for doing it,” he says, “but I realized she ruined her own life to set us free.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Mr Governor, my honour and dignity have already been ruined," she responds.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In an instant he took in a ruined face as rough as tree bark; waist-length hair matted with filth; a rancid cape of slimy yellow reeds.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Nothing is happening, updates are reaching us late. It's ruining our itinerary," 22-year-old traveller William Obino told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Pastry-hunting tourists are ruining this Italian mountain refuge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Critics will say this is yet another example of how they are ruining the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
We were having so much fun, and now he’s ruining it.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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