lay waste
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My life without it is a swirl of forces, leading to natural disasters of impulsivity that often lay waste most acutely in my bank account.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022
But by March 2013, he’d be dead of cancer, and you could feel something malignant about to lay waste to his country’s social and economic body.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022
At the end of Reeves’ film, Paul Dano’s Riddler, his vengeful plot to lay waste to Gotham foiled, or at least mitigated, by Batman, is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2022
There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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