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Large sauropod tracks were found nearby, and seem a good fit for a downward force that could have pulverized part of the shell.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2019

The same forces that have pulverized private sector unions in other industries — overseas manufacturing, lower transportation costs, global markets — have strengthened the hand of the ILWU, said economists who study global trade.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2015

To top it off, most were so thin and delicate that the molding process would have pulverized them; instead we had to prototype casts from the CT data obtained from scans of these bones.

From Scientific American • Apr. 2, 2012

But now, Rees-Mogg contended, the televised Senate hearings, the leak-prone grand jury investigation and the publication of assorted prejudicial statements have pulverized due process.

From Time Magazine Archive

But suppose Page 253 one had tried to put all that force into the watch at once: it would have pulverized it to atoms.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White