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Eventually, rescuers were able to send down a pair of trainers to replace the cut-down miners' boots he was running in and which were wrecking his feet with blisters and sores.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

And that was an object lesson for me about the ways that my expectations, not only about how things would go, but how they would respond, were wrecking it for people.

From Slate

Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising.

From Time Magazine Archive

The article stated that every weekend, forty or so "gothic-looking skateboarders" were wrecking the school.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid the manias which were wrecking his mind, he had remained a man of figures with a passion for arithmetical accuracy, and he protested.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred