wiped out
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This event wiped out much of the life on the planet and paved the way for the diversification of new groups of animals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The country is still discovering species which have already been wiped out.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
It not only wiped out many traders but also saddled crypto exchanges’ insurance funds with losses when customers couldn’t pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"It's like a war happened and we were a bullet factory," the 49-year-old said, adding that five months of inventory had been "wiped out" within weeks of the conflict's outbreak in late February.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Power Plant No. 1 was completely wiped out by a twelve-billion-gallon wall of water in 1928.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
Yet somehow, in a wiped-out corner of Normandy, horror and sympathy fused into the existentialism of “Waiting for Godot” and, later, culminated in the black optimism of “Happy Days.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
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
