Concept of damage to an object, system or an idea.
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Examples for "devastation"
Examples for "devastation"
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Earlier this year in Ireland we witnessed the devastation that flooding caused.
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As relatively calm weather returned, the devastation left by Doris became clear.
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The devastation caused by the civil war soured any sense of triumph.
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The Atlanta area had escaped the general devastation almost without a scratch.
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The wholesale devastation of the island was an idea of General Weyler's.
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Rio culture 'significant factor' in sites' destruction The political fallout is ongoing.
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In Britain today, we no longer support the destruction of city centres.
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The painful reality of creation is that it cannot continue without destruction.
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They needed another twelve minutes-justtwelve more minutes-toinsure their pursuers' destruction!
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The mutually assured destruction aims to stop either country using nuclear weapons.
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The seeds of destruction are sown in civil intercourse, in social habitudes.
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But the price of victory might be the destruction of American democracy.
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It says the destruction violated international law and the laws of war.
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Nonviolence is a way of coming to a resolution without mutual destruction.
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Mrs Tekwie says destruction of New Guinea's forests needs to be curbed.
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How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously?
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The present is nothing but the mutual destruction of past and future.
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Typhoon Haiyan caused extensive destruction and left about a million people homeless.
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Then it was possible to get back to work despite the destruction.
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The wars cost tens of thousands of lives and caused mass destruction.
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Russia has denied that its forces were responsible for the bridge's destruction.
