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One excursion was later refunded but - having worked in the aviation sector - Catie is annoyed that the air traffic problem extended so long as to ruin their holiday.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“It’s a shame, if it’s going to ruin an entire neighborhood,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

And then that’s all I could think about while I was doing it, and I was on a road to ruin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Brushing his hand over crackling vine leaves, French winemaker Gregory Guibergia was relieved a wildfire only scorched the edge of his vineyard but he feared its smoke would ruin this year's vintage.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

And then, as they stared at the ruin around them: “I said run!”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In the weeks afterward, people returned to offices overlooking the smoky ruins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In Nuwakot, AFP photographers on Tuesday saw people scouring through mud into the rubble of their homes for usable items, some clearing away dirt and stringing up plastic sheeting for shelter in the ruins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

From agricultural terraces to temple ruins under Mexico City to art collections and more, tourists can get a glimpse of Aztec life from 500 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Before firefighters had finished extinguishing the blaze, I found Liliya Velyka, a 28-year-old book blogger, raking through the smouldering ruins, seeing if anything could be saved.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

We get in and set out on our familiar, unfamiliar street and head off into a world where fresh roots are already growing deep in the fertile ruins of what used to be.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Watching the stop-motion monsters climb over ruined walls to poke at Greece’s elite soldiers, it’s easy to forgive the movie for its less-than-stellar dubbing or borderline nonsensical love story.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Three winemakers earlier this month filed suit against the owner of Hundred Acre Wines, Jayson Woodbridge, and his company alleging that smoke from the wildfire ruined their harvests, the Press Democrat reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

"Here the buildings are destroyed, not pretty. Here, it seems, there's a fountain, but on the other side there's a ruined building," said Dezhyna, who works for the local admimistration.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

“At first I hated her for doing it,” he says, “but I realized she ruined her own life to set us free.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Samir led us a safe distance from the ruined inn.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

"I heard my fans were worried negativity was ruining things for me but... that could not be more than the opposite," she said on stage in Chicago.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

"Nothing is happening, updates are reaching us late. It's ruining our itinerary," 22-year-old traveller William Obino told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Pastry-hunting tourists are ruining this Italian mountain refuge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

“If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.”

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Otherwise, it would be a merciless and, indeed, a heinous action, as it would entail ruining a reputation and misleading a community.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali