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Last Tuesday, the same day she announced she’d try competing at Milan Cortina with a torn-up knee, Vonn had already been back on her skis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

I tore through half a bottle in a week—drizzling it over salads, spooning it onto seafood, and, of course, dunking torn-up hunks of crusty French bread.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

Crumpled mattresses and twisted bed frames; torn-up couches leaking crumbly foam; halves of tables and broken bookshelves piled high among busted office chairs and abandoned dressers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

But their efforts have been stymied by torn-up roads and continuing tremors.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2022

He was wearing clothes the police had scrounged up for him at the station, this torn-up wifebeater that was way too small, pants so short on him they looked like capris.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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