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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

Amy and Danny's energy toward one another trades sweetness and consideration for the type of unhinged passion that razes lives to nothing but ash.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023

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

Two are carriers, one of whom has "a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing Cross;" the other has his panniers full of turkeys.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

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

It’s a different story around the corner, where residents of Imperial Avalon Mobile Estates got word in 2019 that their park would be sold, razed and developed into apartments and shops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

To protect the below-ground bunker, the government will need to build a structure on top of it to replace the one it razed, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

A month later, the town appeared to have been razed almost entirely, including the stadium where slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivered his "liberation" speech in 2000 to mark the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Instead, the city decided it could spend about $5.6 million razing them and prepping the hill for 100-plus multifamily units.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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 swathes of forest, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.

From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 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

In that day time icebergs will come crunching against our proudest cities, razing them from off the face of the earth as though they were made of rotten blotting-paper. 

From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild