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As a result, entire streets remain lined by shattered houses with yards covered by heaps of the city’s famous red bricks and torn-up trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

To cook a meal, Nabil lights a fire on the bare staircase, stoking it carefully with pieces of torn-up cardboard.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

The pace of construction has picked up dramatically in the past few years, which drivers can see in snarled traffic and torn-up roadways.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Crumpled mattresses and twisted bed frames; torn-up couches leaking crumbly foam; halves of tables and broken bookshelves piled high among busted office chairs and abandoned dressers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Calvin and I sort through a lot of torn-up Sonotube remains.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor




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