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As a result, entire streets remain lined by shattered houses with yards covered by heaps of the city’s famous red bricks and torn-up trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

To cook a meal, Nabil lights a fire on the bare staircase, stoking it carefully with pieces of torn-up cardboard.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

Here’s the key: Midway through their final game, team members reassemble a torn-up sign Ted had created that reads “Believe.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

We cannot pack said bird with anything other than stuffing made from torn-up hot dog buns, celery, onion and a whole tube of breakfast sausage — dusted with a few healthy shakes of Bell's Seasoning.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

Calvin and I sort through a lot of torn-up Sonotube remains.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor




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