raze
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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 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
We had little sleep each night, not knowing when the bulldozers would come to raze our home.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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"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 Smiles, Samuel
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
But satellite imagery shows several olive trees around the house razed to the ground.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
After his grandparents’ died, Wasserman razed their property to make way for a one-of-a-kind dwelling designed by famed architect Richard Meier.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
The AOL campus has largely been razed, in part to make way for the new digital economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
What was left standing of the Imperial city after the initial shocks was then razed to the ground by uncontrollable fires.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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 millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.
From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 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
What a cautious stamping out of fire and razing of tents!
From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona
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