Example Sentences

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Palantir’s CTO stated AI inference signals “the death of legacy software,” making its platform useful but ravaging others.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

“You want to start to free up some assets into something short-term so you aren’t ravaging your portfolio all along, saying ‘Oh shoot, the market just tanked, but I need money now,’” she said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

In Cameroon, he denounced the “chains of corruption” that stand in the way of peace and justice, and accused a “handful of tyrants” of ravaging the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Next came the bears, breaking into Clark’s cottage multiple times, ravaging cabinets and the refrigerator; it has since been bear-proofed.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

After ravaging the lawn for about an hour, one of us had the presence of mind to ask him, “Whose house is this?”

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride