decimate
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Investors have also been piling into bond markets on fears that AI advances will decimate the job market, while hotter-than-expected producer prices have clouded hopes for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
The departures could decimate an office already struggling to deal with the surge in immigration enforcement, said B. Todd Jones, a former U.S. attorney for Minnesota.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
Generalist creatures, those that can thrive in a variety of environments, will most easily adapt to city life and may go on to decimate native species.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025
No one knew at the time that what began as a local wildfire would quickly come to decimate our city; a beloved small town within the larger landscape of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
To decimate once meant “to slaughter every tenth one,” although it’s rarely used literally these days.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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