wiped out

Direct hits on an airport have long been an aviation insurance doomsday scenario, given that billions of dollars worth of planes sit tightly next to each other and could be wiped out en masse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The financial penalty was later ruled “excessive” and wiped out, but the finding of business fraud still stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A marine heatwave in 2024 wiped out an estimated 99.9 percent of the coral that built the remote Tuvalu islands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

But vegetation, starting with grasslands and shifting to forests, creeps back into the swathes wiped out in the explosion and people follow.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

And even this enormous force might not have overcome the empire if while Cortes was building his ships Tenochtitlan had not been swept by smallpox in the same pandemic that later wiped out Tawantinsuyu.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Dangol, 30, was one of the few people rescued from the almost wiped-out town of Betrawati, but he died of a lung infection in a Kathmandu hospital two days later.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Credit Suisse Group AG bondholders, representing $4.5 billion of the $17 billion of wiped-out Additional Tier 1 bonds of the company, have filed a lawsuit against Switzerland's banking regulator, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2023

More than 2,300 flights have been cancelled affecting 300,000 passengers, with air travel effectively wiped-out.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023

At Waimea Bay, large swells can produce wall-like waves far from shore that can hold wiped-out surfers underwater for minutes at a time.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

Reports from Nias spoke of wiped-out villages and hundreds of dead and missing people.

From Time Magazine Archive