devastating

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California will likely fare better than Venezuela did on Wednesday, but a magnitude 7.8 quake in this state would still be devastating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

The suffering from this faulty reasoning has already begun, as Venezuela, another TPS country, reels from a devastating earthquake the same day as the court’s opinion.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

Haitians became eligible for TPS in 2010 following a devastating earthquake and the country continues to suffer from extreme poverty, rampant violence from heavily armed gangs and chronic political instability.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Those things weren’t important to know in order to be moved by Griffin’s tale of how a lifelong quest for perfection set her mind and body against one another with devastating results.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis