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rubble

noun as in remains

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The images of daily life amid destruction and rubble — children, bicyclists, workers, laundry drying from high floors in a half-destroyed building — hint at an inextinguishable flame carrying on through a campaign of death.

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Another person was rescued in the building after being pulled from beneath rubble, they said.

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Israel has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the hostages' bodies, but Hamas has said it is struggling to find them under rubble.

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Caterpillar’s D9 armored bulldozers—used to clear rubble and destroy residences and other structures—have been ubiquitous.

Now, like so many other parts of Gaza, the area has been reduced to rubble.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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