torn

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They also diversified punk’s existing look—spiked hair and torn shirts held together with safety pins—with their own tight jeans, sneakers and leather motorcycle jackets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Most notable was Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy, who is a super talent but slipped down to the fourth round, pick 101, after missing all of last season with a torn ACL.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The block is about to be demolished to make way for a gleaming new residential complex, and the mosaic is to be torn down.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Experts were on the ground about 15 minutes later to confirm the reports and found trees ripped from their root systems and a barn with its roof freshly torn off.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

She didn’t want to patch it, and she was trying to make her stitches as invisible as possible so no one would be able to tell it had been torn in the first place.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack