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as in devastation
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
the wreckage of those ancient statues represents a great loss to the art world
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as in rubble
the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed
the wreckage of the cathedral was kept as a memorial and as a reminder of war's terrible cost
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Recent Examples of wreckage
Cherished memories — photo albums, family heirlooms, and tokens of love — swallowed by floodwaters and carried miles away, are now reduced to mere fragments and discarded amid the wreckage.
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Alaa Elassar, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
In the end, there might be little to salvage from the wreckage of OceanGate.
—Mark Harris, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
The wreckage of the early movers in the crypto industry included substantial criminal activity at FTX, and questionable business models at some of the crypto-lending firms that encompassed high-risk activities that had resulted in countless failures in traditional lending firms.
—Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Instead, the owner of Outdoor Adventure Rafting has been deploying search-and-rescue crews in the wreckage of Hurricane Helene.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Alaa Elassar, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
In the end, there might be little to salvage from the wreckage of OceanGate.
—Mark Harris, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
The wreckage of the early movers in the crypto industry included substantial criminal activity at FTX, and questionable business models at some of the crypto-lending firms that encompassed high-risk activities that had resulted in countless failures in traditional lending firms.
—Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Instead, the owner of Outdoor Adventure Rafting has been deploying search-and-rescue crews in the wreckage of Hurricane Helene.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wreckage
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Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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The lime in the rubble left behind after artillery bombardments helped fertilize the plants, which flourished across Belgium and northern France during the war, then largely disappeared once the lime was gone.Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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That campaign, started during Barack Obama’s presidency, included battles in Mosul, where an effort to evict approximately 5,000 ISIS fighters in the city led to perhaps 10,000 civilian deaths and the destruction of the city.Eugene Kontorovich, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
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The destruction has left the community and visitors disheartened.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 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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The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Skye is a wreck from the moment of her fateful contact, and watching an unstable protagonist get bludgeoned by terror in a world where almost nothing seems real is less gripping than watching one who’s actively fighting for her survival.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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Finding a way to start over The havoc from Cyclone Freddy was widespread across several countries, displacing 650,000 people from their homes in Malawi alone.Lauren Sommer, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
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Just like hiking the Appalachian Trail, volunteers and officials agreed the repairs and cleanup after Helene’s havoc would be a complex journey for the trail’s enormous community.Graham Hurley, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
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David Tendler, deliberate and even-keeled, recommends an aggressive response and files an immediate TRO, or Temporary Restraining Order, forcing Han to stop his demolition.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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The other player was Kalif Raymond who achieved the feat on Sunday for the Detroit Lions in their demolition of the Tennessee Titans.Ben Morse, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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Richard Larn, a diver and shipwreck expert, founded the museum with his wife, Bridget, in 1976.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Favoring the right hand Shankland was interested in the idea of studying clavicles, or collarbones, from the shipwreck because the bones showcase unique characteristics related to age, development and growth.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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The Browns have suffered losses to the Giants and Raiders on a resume that includes a seemingly inexplicable victory over Baltimore.Jack Magruder, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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An anonymous donor emailed O’Connell the same day the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published its Nov. 6 story about the youth shelter’s sudden loss in federal funding.Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Wreckage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wreckage. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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