devastating
Example Sentences
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Former officials said the sudden loss of that many colleagues is devastating to the sensitive, granular work of preventing attacks.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
"There would have been loads of nesting birds in there and lots of nest building, it's devastating."
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Even one closure could be devastating to a community.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
They point to the string of devastating urban wildfires in recent years as reason to move quickly.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
But in the early years of the eighteenth century this argument from probability was applied with devastating force.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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