demolish
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The board has the responsibility to maintain the building that houses the center, but not to demolish the building and erect a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In February, the Labour-led authority agreed to buy the centre so they could demolish it.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The filing does not say there is a plan to demolish the complex.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The only option to build the facility was to demolish the Trojans’ longtime baseball field and displace the program for multiple seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Dunstan needed no further encouragement, and he began to demolish the pudding.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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But “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
While robotics have advanced, and AI demolishes service industries, the idea of a “lights out” factory — meaning there are no human workers — is not quite there yet.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
The city offers $4,500 or two months rent if a landlord demolishes or substantially remodels a building, but only one month’s rent in other cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
"If the government demolishes our houses, at least give us a solution. Tell us where to go. We don't know where to go," she said.
From BBC ● May 3, 2024
Woo demolishes the cinnamon dip with one sweeping lick.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Walmart recently demolished its headquarters building, a low-slung and dingy former warehouse it used since 1971 that embodied the company’s low-cost ethos, and moved into a sprawling new office complex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
But after tenant advocates warned that rent-controlled apartments would be demolished and homeowners complained that density threatened historic neighborhoods, Bass restricted the locations eligible for the program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Children in the Northamptonshire town have been born with birth defects, believed to have been caused when steelworks were demolished in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Carol Ann’s house, like the sisters’, has been demolished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In time, both the theories would be spectacularly vindicated, and spectacularly demolished.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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In elite enclaves like Palm Beach, billionaire buyers are demolishing even relatively new houses to secure prime lots for their own custom builds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The expansion would mean demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting rivers, and rerouting the M25 motorway between junctions 14 and 15 through a tunnel under the new runway.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“We’re encouraging people to spread out and support independent businesses rather than all going to one place and demolishing the kitchen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Anta collaborated with Chinese scientists to develop a type of foam cushion made with nitrogen that provides extra bounciness—all but demolishing Nike’s competitive moat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
She's obviously enjoying demolishing Shanti's cousin in front of everybody.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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