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bomb site

British  

noun

  1. an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It was built on a former bomb site and designed by architects W H Rogers and Sir Howard Robertson.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

The moment of Mori being embraced by Obama at the bomb site became the defining image of the visit.

From Reuters ● May 16, 2023

But the bomb site still looked like a bomb site: bits of headlight housings, things that looked like spark plugs, curled pieces of rubber that I assumed had once been tires.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018

“We bought in this neighborhood because it was safe and quiet,” said Hume, who is 25 and lives five doors down from the bomb site with her husband, Chris, a software engineer.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018

At eleven o’clock on the night of the fifteenth, a government sedan picked up Lawrence for the bumpy three-hour ride to Compania Hill, a watching post twenty miles from the bomb site.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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