despoliation
Example Sentences
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Matt: Environmental despoliation appears multiple times in “Andor.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022
They drove industry, which drove the despoliation of the planet.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
But the application of modern science and engineering to economic affairs also set in motion a ruinous despoliation of the planet.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2021
Others, including conservationists and environmentalists, fear pollution and despoliation.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2020
But he had suffered much both in his pride and his purse at the hands of the Brooklyn inventor; and such despoliation is not a reliable basis for sympathy.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
