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
At worst, biomass projects can decimate forests and release their stored carbon into the atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
Critics of the plans say the changes will decimate the Samaritans' work in local communities and have accused the charity's leadership of repeatedly ignoring requests to provide the rationale for the plans.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
She didn’t need to decimate them, all she needed to do was disarm them and keep them off balance.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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