debris
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When the Americans reached Weimar in April, Weirich was ordered to march through the hellish debris of Buchenwald to clear up the camp on a work detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Images released by the emergency services showed rescue workers in high-visibility vests scrambling to move debris, rubble and dirt.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
This September, the department ordered the building’s owner to “immediately remove all fired damaged debris that pose a Present, immenent, extreme and immediate hazard or danger to life or limb, health or safety.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
As the system matures, that environment develops into a gas-poor debris disk.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Power tools buzzed, debris was cleared, fences were mended, holes were dug, machines were repaired or replaced, beams and walls and roofs went up, equipment and pipes and wires were installed.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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