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bomb site

British

noun

an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs

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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

Andriy Kostin, Ukraine's Prosecutor General who accompanied Khan to the bomb site, praised the cooperation between his offices and those of the ICC.

From Reuters • Feb. 28, 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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