devastate
Example Sentences
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Discovery, expressing fears the blockbuster merger would devastate the industry and shrink production jobs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Surging memory prices are expected to devastate the electronics market, forcing rival phone makers to raise prices and affecting Android devices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Healthcare alone can devastate even carefully planned budgets.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
If a manager genuinely believed AI was going to devastate their software book, they could simply stop making new software loans.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Most commentators assumed that getting bronze on beam would devastate me, but in fact, I was over the moon.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
Vocabulary lists containing devastate
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