wrecking

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Choreographer Mark Morris staved off the federal government’s arts wrecking ball by salvaging his latest work, “Moon,” a commission for the Kennedy Center’s Earth to Space festival in April.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, Riel Karmy-Jones, has said the anti-jury proposal sends “a wrecking ball” through the British system of justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

"If someone turns up for the purposes of just abusing people and wrecking the place and damaging the cohesion, we can ask them to leave, and Australia has asked him to leave."

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

Over-abstraction risks wrecking some rivers, particularly the fragile ecosystems of the country's chalk streams, said Mr Lovell.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Pima clambered up the shattered edge of the clipper and slipped inside, her hands fast and accomplished from years on wrecking crews.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi