- present participle of devastate.
devastating
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He led the company through the telecom nuclear winter of the early 2000s, which was more economically devastating than the preceding dot-com bust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
She still loves her husband and is not ready for that to be done, and is dating this new person who is seeing other people, and that’s also devastating to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Malnutrition in Yemen is a crisis within a crisis - another frontline in a devastating civil war.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
A statement released by his parents said Haines had been "our friend for more than 20 years and what happened to her yesterday is devastating and unfathomable", The Age newspaper reported.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
I’d had close friends go through devastating breakups, brought on by small problems left unattended or lapses in communication that led eventually to irreparable rifts.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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