rip up
Example Sentences
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Nancy ripped up the 4-3-3 formation used by O'Neill in favour of his own 3-4-3 system and accepts his team have fallen below the level he would like from them.
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The costs and environmental damage of ripping up the seabed are expected to be high.
One minister worries that government is not willing to be radical enough, telling me, "We don't look like we are interested in ripping up the system that doesn't work for young people".
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Having conviction in a method is a sign of strong leadership and it would be odd to rip up three years of work and start again.
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We opened the floor for fans to imagine a world in which they could rip up the rulebook and start again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.