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Melton said it pains him to raze the downtown convention center, built in 1981, because it was the brainchild of the city’s first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Less than a year after watching flames raze his home in the Altadena foothills, Ted Koerner has moved into a brand new house, one of the first to rebuild in this Los Angeles suburb.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

Should she decide to raze the existing dwelling, she may find herself facing some resistance, given its impressive architectural pedigree.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

It was only on Wednesday, a full two days after the demolition had started, that the administration admitted that the plan was to raze the entire East Wing.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025

They are going to raze the Time and a Half Pool Hall, where feet in long tan shoes once pointed down from chair rungs.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024

Detroit Blight Busters builds and renovates homes, but also razes homes seen as blights on their neighborhoods.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021

One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2019

It razes nine to 15 houses a year.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2018

Our quick-returning folly cancels all; As the tide rushing razes what is writ In yielding sands, and smooths the letter’d shore.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

Last January, Spencer Pratt’s house in Pacific Palisades was razed by the raging flames of the Palisades Fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

When he finally relents, she discovers that the invading Nazi army has razed her shtetl and that its inhabitants, including her parents, are gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

A month later, the town appeared to have been razed almost entirely, including the stadium where slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivered his "liberation" speech in 2000 to mark the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

But satellite imagery shows several olive trees around the house razed to the ground.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Before the disaster, part of the complex had been a bird sanctuary, and 220 acres of forest had to be razed in the cleanup.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

In 2021 the Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for land at a former racetrack in nearby Arlington Heights, with the intention of razing the existing facility and building a new stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The two largest blazes—the Palisades fire and the Eaton fire—ripped through entire communities, razing hundreds of properties, many of which remain nothing more than empty lots.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

The "Black Summer" bushfires raged across Australia's eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

One by one, the anchors holding people in place - home, community, family - have been loosened by the constant uprooting of Gaza's population and the razing of its neighbourhoods and streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

In that day time icebergs will come crunching against our proudest cities, razing them from off the face of the earth as though they were made of rotten blotting-paper. 

From Life and Habit by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)