ravaging

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Palantir’s CTO stated AI inference signals “the death of legacy software,” making its platform useful but ravaging others.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

“You want to start to free up some assets into something short-term so you aren’t ravaging your portfolio all along, saying ‘Oh shoot, the market just tanked, but I need money now,’” she said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Add deforestation and ravaging fires, and it’s fair to say that, in a few months, humans can swiftly and completely ruin forest habitat that was thousands of years in the making.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

One of those flashback chapters, “The Cradle of Civilization,” unravels the ironic, ravaging narcissistic, perhaps psychopathic implications of the title.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

After a second Opium War, the Tientsin Treaties legalized the ravaging opium trade, legalized a British-French-American control of China’s customs.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey