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For years Carter Caldwell had adamantly rejected doctors’ recommendations that he consider surgery to treat the frequent, uncontrolled seizures that were ravaging his brain.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022

Ms. von der Leyen’s confident tone, switching between English, French and German, was a sharp contrast with her speech last year, when new Covid-19 cases were ravaging the bloc and vaccines were months away.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The bulk of damage was from three clusters of blazes that were ravaging forest and rural areas in the wine country and San Francisco Bay Area.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2020

But that cancer cells were ravaging his body as he narrated the story of humanity's battle against the disease offered a haunting symbolism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015

Meanwhile the French Indians were ravaging the frontiers and burning farm-houses to within sight of Albany.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis