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

Donald Trump has often been dubbed a political wrecking ball for his unorthodox style -- and now the US president has literally started demolition work on the White House.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

In “Los Angeles Plays Itself,” his 2003 documentary chronicling the portrayal of the city through cinema history, Andersen aims his own wrecking ball.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

He marches back to Persia with an army and a wife, and smacks Chobin so hard for wrecking everything that Chobin flees to Fergana, which is like saying he runs away to Mars.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri