wiped out
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Monday’s losses also wiped out the stock’s year-to-date gains, which had been building as investors hoped that Newsom’s efforts on that liability shift would succeed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
If we had domestic water consumption patterns more like Denmark, Russell says, more than half the 2055 shortfall would be wiped out.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
In Ridley Scott’s simple-minded sociological study “The Dog Stars,” an influenza epidemic wiped out the majority of our squabblesome species sometime during the last decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Rescuers in the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet have reached the main area wiped out by the devastating mudslide, Chinese state media reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Acid rain in the streams has nearly wiped out the park’s trout.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Dangol, 30, was one of the few people rescued from the almost wiped-out town of Betrawati, but he died of a lung infection in a Kathmandu hospital two days later.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Credit Suisse Group AG bondholders, representing $4.5 billion of the $17 billion of wiped-out Additional Tier 1 bonds of the company, have filed a lawsuit against Switzerland's banking regulator, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2023
More than 2,300 flights have been cancelled affecting 300,000 passengers, with air travel effectively wiped-out.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
At Waimea Bay, large swells can produce wall-like waves far from shore that can hold wiped-out surfers underwater for minutes at a time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015
Reports from Nias spoke of wiped-out villages and hundreds of dead and missing people.
From Time Magazine Archive
