decimation

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Ransone appeared in all 12 episodes of the show’s second season, which focused on the decimation of the city’s docks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2025

Food and Agriculture Organization as part of its decimation of the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The 1921 racist massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the resulting decimation of the booming wealth center known as Black Wall Street, aren’t included in elementary and high school textbooks.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025

On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin to try to reconcile our split-screen moment: democracy being seen to be done, and the looming decimation of democracy.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2024

Thirdly, mass extinctions akin to the archetypal Australian decimation occurred again and again in the ensuing millennia—whenever people settled another part of the Outer World.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari