devastating
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Perpetual futures are also high-leverage and high-risk products that can dramatically amplify traders’ gains—or expose them to devastating losses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Pratt entered the mayoral race a year after he lost his home in the devastating fires in the city in 2025, which were some of the deadliest and most destructive blazes in the area's history.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Southern Californians were also reeling from the devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena and last year’s special election to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
There have been many devastating school fires in Kenya, where boarding schools are common as a colonial legacy of missionaries and the British.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
They were devastating and primarily leveled both cities, but little was told to the public then except that a new kind of bomb had been used against the Japanese.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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