ruinous

Example Sentences

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The joint amicus brief called the department labelling Anthropic a risk "a potentially ruinous sanction" for businesses and little more than a "temper tantrum".

From BBC

The great tragedies permit catharsis, and their ruinous endings are part of that process.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s how fast it is supposed to be able to grow without stoking ruinous inflation.

From MarketWatch

That means contending with German society’s deeply ingrained pacificism, a legacy of ruinous wars and the horrors of the Holocaust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Blair Kinghorn was a surprise exclusion from the 23 but the Toulouse full-back is the embodiment of the gambler's instinct that's magnificent when it works and utterly ruinous when it doesn't.

From BBC