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

What is beyond doubt is the decimation of a family who have been a source of fascination and speculation in their native Norway and far beyond.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

“We’ve already seen major consequences from the decimation thus far,” Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

The destructive and life-threatening fires have caused near-total decimation of the Pacific Palisades.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025

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