torn

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Contractors at the massive Lineage warehouse on Thursday had already placed fans and misters around the burned remains of the building, which had its walls torn down so firefighters could spray water into the structure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

The New Reich Chancellery, built by Hitler's favourite architect Albert Speer, was severely damaged at the end of World War Two and then torn down by order of the Soviet forces in 1949.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026

At the camp, nearly 200 families are crammed into fragile shelters stitched together from straw, torn fabric and sheets of plastic.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

It functioned in this way until 1960, when it was torn down to make room for new construction in a thriving new Germany.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom