ruinous
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Ruinous competition amid fixed costs bankrupted dozens of airlines in the 1980s and 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Ruinous hyperinflation, which the GMD was unable to control, added to the strains of urban life.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Ruinous urban planning during the 1960s knocked the wind out of the neighborhood, but by the late ’90s the local community had come up with a unified revitalization plan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2016
A League’s Ruinous Battle Against Itself By Jeff Z. Klein Bill Daly, the N.H.L.'s deputy commissioner, is a man not normally given to purple public statements.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2012
Mute outcry, most, of those Small suffering hands defrauded of their rose; Faces the daylight shuns; Ruinous faces of the little ones,— Pale witness, unaware.
From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Peabody, Josephine Preston
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