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Or should he raze that foundation and start anew?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

Should she decide to raze the existing dwelling, she may find herself facing some resistance, given its impressive architectural pedigree.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

“It takes a village to raze a camp.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

"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

Today, 73 percent of Arlington’s residentially zoned land is single-family, meaning that if a developer razes a house, it may be replaced only with another single-family house.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 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

That casts down, and brings down all superstructures, razes out all vain confidence to the very foundation, and then begins to build on a solid ground.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

He razed the existing residence to build his own custom 9,700-square-fooot megamansion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Towering over the threadbare lawn, Omeltchenko worked on what was the seat of the regional administration -- an imposing white stone Stalinist-era building almost completely razed by Russian strikes last year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The prospect of their brother’s dwelling being razed fills them with anguish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Through the trunks, we get the occasional glimpse of the razed farmland which tightly fences this pocket of protected woodland.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

It does feel to her like her entire world is being razed.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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 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

Once upon a time no deity had a freer hand at razing cities. 

From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by William Beckford