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The National Weather Service has repeatedly warned of dangerous rip currents and elevated surf in recent weeks as multiple southerly swells battered the coastlines of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Homeowners have to rip up their whole bathroom or driveway if something goes wrong with their heated floors, Christian Perry, a Greenwich, Conn.-based real-estate agent, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Let Hollywood creatives get back to trying to rip each other’s heads off at the box office, in streaming, online and everywhere else we compete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Officials warned of hazardous conditions — such as high surf and strong rip currents — across much of the Southern California coastline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

I clutch the trim on my tunic so hard, it gives a little protest rip.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

“It rips out Prop. 103’s good‑driver protections and replaces your actual driving record with a black‑box score built on sweeping data collection,’’ Balber said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

An alarm on his pager rips him from sleep at 1 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The episode’s signature moment comes in a soliloquy from Gen Z hero Ava Daniels, in which she rips into the idea that A.I. is inevitable and talks about how we can and should fight it.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

"It rips any sense of future that you may feel that you had planned for yourself - all that goes."

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Then rips three new tickets from the printer.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Motherwell, so easy on the eye last season, have had their guts ripped out in the summer and are also rebuilding, albeit playing with the same easy style as before.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Local media quoted the operator of the mall, which was evacuated before being ripped apart by the suspected gas blast over an hour after Tuesday's quake, as saying that all employees were now accounted for.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

In California, where some cities have ripped out new bike lanes, cycling advocates are pushing a bill to make removal harder; the measure has passed the state Senate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The discovery began with an exceptionally bright flare produced when a star wandered too close to a massive black hole and was ripped apart by its intense gravity.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

His T-shirt flapped so hard against his skin that it felt like it was being ripped off.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

By comparison Uganda has had nine since 2000, with officials there saying lessons learnt from past tragedies have allowed them to stop the disease ripping through the country on various occasions.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

"And that's not just writers who continually return to the Greeks and Romans -- the history, the myths, the characters, the events -- that's also readers. These are ripping good yarns."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The fires in Spain that have been raging for days in and around the Madrid region are the biggest in the area’s history, ripping through dry vegetation, homes and campsites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Views of just one of the wildfires ripping across Ontario, Canada yesterday.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Katherine missed his glare because she was snatching the envelope out of Chip’s hand, ripping the letter open.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix