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tear to pieces





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To defend his shattering of the rules, he will have to “cancel and tear to pieces that great bond” that makes civilization possible in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2025

The sort of thinking data mavens love to tear to pieces.

From Forbes Feb. 24, 2012

You may doom us a thousand times and yet the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will tear to pieces the indictment of the State prosecutor and the sentence of this Court!

From Time Magazine Archive

"Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Powers that can look down, and not be swept away by passion, and not try to tear to pieces those who in their folly harm them.

From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall




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