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According to reports, he plans to raze the other two properties—for which he paid a combined $147 million—and live in the most recent purchase while awaiting construction to be completed.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Melton said it pains him to raze the downtown convention center, built in 1981, because it was the brainchild of the city’s first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Less than a year after watching flames raze his home in the Altadena foothills, Ted Koerner has moved into a brand new house, one of the first to rebuild in this Los Angeles suburb.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

It was only on Wednesday, a full two days after the demolition had started, that the administration admitted that the plan was to raze the entire East Wing.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025

They are going to raze the Time and a Half Pool Hall, where feet in long tan shoes once pointed down from chair rungs.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024

Detroit Blight Busters builds and renovates homes, but also razes homes seen as blights on their neighborhoods.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021

One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2019

It razes nine to 15 houses a year.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2018

I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of Ginger to be delivered as far as Charing Cross. 1st Henry IV, act ii, sc.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Before the home was fully razed, Franklin snapped up the land on which it sat for $6 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

The BBC's Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and "a sea of black" in the village of Bédar, in southern Spain's Almería province.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Last January, Spencer Pratt’s house in Pacific Palisades was razed by the raging flames of the Palisades Fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

When he finally relents, she discovers that the invading Nazi army has razed her shtetl and that its inhabitants, including her parents, are gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The demolition of uptown Alexandra had resumed, and it seemed the landlord wanted to make as much money as he could before his yard, too, was razed.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

In 2021 the Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for land at a former racetrack in nearby Arlington Heights, with the intention of razing the existing facility and building a new stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The two largest blazes—the Palisades fire and the Eaton fire—ripped through entire communities, razing hundreds of properties, many of which remain nothing more than empty lots.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

The "Black Summer" bushfires raged across Australia's eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

One by one, the anchors holding people in place - home, community, family - have been loosened by the constant uprooting of Gaza's population and the razing of its neighbourhoods and streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

He set about razing them with cheerful serenity.

From The Furnace by Dame Rose Macaulay