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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruinate
Verb
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To allow these courts to be destroyed to make pickleball courts is just wrong.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2025 -
Black residents had already been moving away because of gentrification before the fires and saw their homes severely damaged or destroyed at higher rates than other groups during the blaze.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
Verb
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Federal government employment declined by 9,000 in April and is down by 26,000 since January — not enough to pull down overall employment.—
Talmon Joseph Smith,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Fast-forwarding spending, or stockpiling, is like pulling down the shutters ahead of a hurricane (in the event this particular hurricane was much worse than feared).—
The Editors,
National Review,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Sonos is very, very sorry for ruining your speaker system.—
Boone Ashworth,
Wired News,
9 May 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Bonta said the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency were acting unlawfully by unilaterally axing a program established and funded by Congress to support devastated parts of the country at their greatest time of need, such as Los Angeles after its recent wildfires.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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From the European perspective, leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have sought U.S. guarantees for Ukraine's long-term security, as well as help with funding any eventual reconstruction of the devastated nation.—
Alex Leff,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Spence said Casey’s plans to tear down and replace the existing fence, but did not say at what height.—
Marie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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As a result, homes and municipal buildings have aged and deteriorated but were not torn down and replaced.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
Verb
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That predecessor was wrecked May 9, 1980, when a freighter, lost in the vicious storm, broadsided the southbound span of the twin bridge and knocked down a 1,260-foot section of roadway.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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They were meant to stop drivers from careening across who were wrecking his soybeans.—
Riley Robinson,
Christian Science Monitor,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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But in the last few years, an explosion of warehouse development has wiped out farmland and open space.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2023
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Tens of billions of dollars in value has been wiped out, including during the days when the company was soliciting bids for its offering, the largest of its kind in India.—
Alex Travelli,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023
Verb
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One image in the show that follows that thread is a famous photograph of Dresden, Germany, taken from the top of the city hall after Dresden was flattened by Allied aerial bombing at the end of World War II.—
Nina Siegal,
New York Times,
7 May 2025
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Developers had already flattened most of the dunes north to the Virginia border.—
Amy Brecount White,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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“Ruinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinate. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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