damaged
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The latter incident, the Summit fire, has already destroyed at least one home and damaged three others, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, but officials say its forward progress has been stopped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Images from the scene show the roof of the building was completely destroyed, while other parts have been severely damaged.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
These medicines work by taking advantage of defects in the way certain cancer cells repair damaged DNA.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Separately, it was named as a defendant in at least two construction lawsuits at that time, including one in which construction work damaged a neighboring property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hanako didn’t know what to expect, but she saw that Kobe was a mix of flattened ruins and damaged buildings as well as many undamaged ones.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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