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as in wreckage
the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed
found the wreck of the ship lying on the floor of the ocean
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as in collision
the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact
a dangerous stretch of roadway that has been the scene of numerous car wrecks
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as in to ruin
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters
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Recent Examples of wreck
David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Stallings said inattention causes most wrecks around Henderson, when a driver veers off the road and hits something or sideswipes another car on narrow roads.
—Austin Fast, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
One family in Burnsville was one of the many whose homes were wrecked with mud.
—Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
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Noun
An unexpected mechanical failure resulted in a damaging wreck, casting a long shadow over his aspirations for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Stallings said inattention causes most wrecks around Henderson, when a driver veers off the road and hits something or sideswipes another car on narrow roads.
—Austin Fast, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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The migration scenes also highlight humanity’s capacity for resilience, with shots of a radical new city that people have built to sustain themselves in a world presumably wrecked by fossil fuels.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
One family in Burnsville was one of the many whose homes were wrecked with mud.
—Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
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Alfaro, 30, set up shop early Monday at a Baptist church in southeast Oklahoma City, where residents sifted through debris and emergency responders worked to restore power and clear wreckage – even as rounds of thunderstorms barreled across the region.Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Steve Ditko buries Spider-Man under tons of unmovable, sci-machinery and wreckage, a weight that seems far above even the wall-crawler’s powers to escape from.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The impact of the collision caused the bus to overturn and land on its roof in the small pond.Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
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About 6 percent of the time, these collisions will create molybdenum-99, says Piefer.Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Democratic Party, particularly, is prone to shipwrecking on the shoals of unretiring seniors.Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Adrian: Adrian is a minor character in The Tempest who is shipwrecked on the island.Kara Nesvig, Parents, 14 Oct. 2024
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Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ground floors of thousands of homes have been ruined.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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About 11 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Mars, sending plumes of debris beyond the planet’s atmosphere.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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That's because blood sugar spikes and crashes are linked to poor sleep quality.Maria Godoy, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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Hardee wrote that the crash remains under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol's Major Accident Investigation Team. Attempts to contact the Marlboro County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday were unsuccessful.Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
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The two airlines reached a $2.9 billion buyout agreement in 2022, only to see that deal scuttled when JetBlue made a competing big.Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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The best Ito stories aren’t laid to rest on the final page but designed to scuttle around in our brains for some time after.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Homes, roads and community spaces in the path of Helene have been destroyed.Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Kristallnacht translates as Night of Broken Glass, a reference to the thousands of shops, businesses and synagogues destroyed by the Nazis across the two nights in November 1938.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Wreck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wreck. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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