tear asunder
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But what the Legislature put together, opponents attempted to tear asunder.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Or, alternate thought: Even such a beautiful, loving, nuanced thing as a marriage that only death could tear asunder can get trounced in a feelings pageant against new love.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022
Denton’s professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment’s secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2016
Larry Stone believes the foundation is more solid, and he has much more trust in general manager Jerry Dipoto to solidify rather than tear asunder, than he ever did with Jack Zduriencik.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2016
In one way or other they tear asunder the structure and transform it backwards in a collection, allowing it hardly as much unity as may be found in the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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