ravage

Now we’re told artificial intelligence will ravage humanity like a zombie apocalypse, so let’s ban data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The Citrini selloff latched onto the market’s recent paranoia that artificial intelligence could ravage established players in a range of industries.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

“Christian forgiveness does not demand we allow the cruel to ravage the whole earth; it demands we love our enemies,” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

At least 30 people have died in Beijing and more than 80,000 were evacuated to safety, Chinese authorities said, as heavy rains and floods ravage roads and houses in northern China.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025

If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

It’s dark and, as the album title forewarns, there is plenty in that mood here—at times evoking societal situations, just as often depicting the ravages of his own age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"I have lived through the ravages of war," she wrote on social media.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

They have found one of the healthiest, most diverse reefs in the region, free from the ravages of the stoney coral disease plaguing the Caribbean.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

A worried mother working miles away from her family frantically tries to get her three children out of harm’s way as an out of control fire ravages their community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025

When the day came, its searching light showed the ravages in poor Lucy’s strength.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The tiny tyrants have ravaged Southern California, leaving disease and death in their wake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Raman’s electoral hopes rest in part on Bass’s unpopularity since firestorms ravaged L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

County to its knees in 2020; Luna held the role last year when the Eaton and Palisades fires ravaged vast swaths of the county, including unincorporated Altadena and Malibu — both patrolled by his department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

US First Lady Melania Trump said in a surprise announcement Friday she had secured a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the ravaged city of Oleshky, where citizens are trapped and short of food.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

A second, much older Halliday lies inside the casket, his body emaciated and ravaged by cancer.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Nigeria last week announced west Africa's first case from an outbreak ravaging Democratic Republic of the Congo -- an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no vaccine or specific treatment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The 19th-century statesmen gathered at Vienna to stabilize Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon’s ravaging.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The ravaging of the museum reflects the destruction seen across Khartoum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Her doctors had just diagnosed it, an aggressive form of lymphoma, already ravaging her organs.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama