devastate

Example Sentences

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Two southeast Los Angeles cities proposed a sales tax increase to offset the financial impact of California’s blackjack ban, which officials said would devastate their local economies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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

Investors worried that a plug-in for Anthropic’s Claude model would devastate their businesses.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

“It would devastate intelligence agencies across the globe,” he reasoned.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti