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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

Hence the decrees of 16th November–15th December, which tear to pieces the old diplomacy, and apply to astonished Europe the gospel of Rousseau.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland




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