trashed
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Origin of trashed
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Evans said: "We were concerned a lot of people would want to go up the mountain to see the graffiti, and the hillside would get trashed."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The worst ones seem to happen during bear markets, when the winning stocks of the preceding boom get trashed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
In March 1989, a midday tube rupture at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo sent cleaning solvent-filled steam into the air and trashed the paint jobs on about 2,000 neighboring cars and trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He was an intensive user of the Fed’s workhorse economic simulations even though he frequently trashed the models when staffers included the results in briefing materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The galley was trashed, all fallen out, but many of the bins of food were still locked in place: rice and flour in sealed containers.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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