wrecker
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“Maxx remains on track to return during the offseason program and will undoubtedly return as the dominant game wrecker he has been these past seven seasons,” Crosby’s agent, CJ LaBoy, wrote on X.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The wrong approach shot could be a card wrecker and potentially provide pivotal drama at the death.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2023
The wrecker service owner recalled moving the same crane a few years before and contacted its owner, who denied having given it away.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
But the Rams have another potential offense wrecker in LB Leonard Floyd, plus the revitalized Von Miller.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
When Odysseus saw that they were safely away, he cried again tauntingly, “Cyclops, Odysseus, wrecker of cities, put out your eye, and do you so tell anyone who asks.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Part of this awareness was bringing these farmers on board to become protectors of the forest rather than wreckers of it.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
VDOT’s nine districts have also identified additional locations to stage wreckers and snowplows, especially where work zones effect movement in the area.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
“They do a great job of getting push in the pocket, they’re really sound in their rush lanes and they’ve got game wreckers up front.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
We were seen as the epitome of everything that was wrong with Great Britain, so much so that a member of Parliament famously said these people are the wreckers of civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
“You made this mess?” she said, like she couldn’t quite believe it, like what she’d expected me to say was that a roving band of house wreckers had come through during the night.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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