wiped out

While many people think that the city’s population was wiped out, the vast majority actually escaped and modern research has found the names and details of hundreds of survivors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The asteroid strike that created it is widely associated with the extinction event that wiped out all nonavian dinosaurs and many other species.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Xbox told the BBC it had "dozens of people working on ID Tech across multiple locations", and said reports the Texas team had been effectively wiped out were "inaccurate".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Despite raising hundreds of millions of dollars from this arrangement, Bed Bath & Beyond filed for chapter 11 weeks after Hudson Bay terminated the deal, and the shares that individual investors bought were wiped out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

He was somewhere in the Brecon Beacons and there should have been a view, but it had been wiped out by the rain and the fading light.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Out in the rest of the world, A.I. is triggering nerves — fears and even predictions of wiped-out jobs, of existential doom — and endless commentary.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

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

Before news of the disaster arrived, some 15,000 wives, mothers and friends of members of the wiped-out invasion forces gathered in Miami's Bayfront Park for a scheduled "Thank Kennedy" meeting.

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