wipe out

Example Sentences

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And everyone thought he was crazy for thinking something as small as a butterfly could start a snowball effect capable of wiping out whole cities.

From Literature

At the turn of the millennium, private investments in technology soared and crashed alongside stocks, wiping out investors who jumped on the bandwagon at the wrong time.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 7,200-word essay from the independent research firm helped spark a selloff in software stocks that wiped out $200 billion in market value.

From MarketWatch

CoreWeave is able to eke out a small operating profit, but this gets wiped out by interest expense.

From Barron's

On Monday, over $200 billion of market capitalization was wiped out of software stocks as the market reacted to a hypothetical artificial-intelligence doomsday scenario.

From MarketWatch