as in to wipe out
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The two once presented a live demo minutes after a computer cloud crash wiped out their materials, winning anyway after Andreou pitched the product entirely from memory.
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Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead Saturday, prompting dozens of rescues after heavy rains wiped out bridges, inundated roads and flooded homes, with more significant rainfall on the way.
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The Hightowers, Rhaenyra soon learns, have sacked the town of Tumbleton, a thriving city on the border of the Crownlands and the Reach.
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That came in the spring of 2025, about 11 months after his dad had been sacked as coach, when Pochettino, the new manager, gave the younger Berhalter his first national team call-up.
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Mercury is a big network with an independent spirit, tearing down gatekeepers and giving a platform to the best indie shows.
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That will take Major League Soccer tearing down all the walls.
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Meanwhile, Lohar’s surviving mercenaries are plundering villages.
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Or was the hole man-made with a malevolent intent, perhaps plundering a grave for artifacts?
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For his part, Klaus Kallmann also claims that his father, Hartmut Kallmann, always said that their family’s art collection was fully intact when the Nazis came to power and that the collection subsequently looted.
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Though it had been looted by kids, most of the material was eventually recovered.
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The most common type of dementia, which destroys memory and cognitive function, was responsible for 116,022 deaths in 2024, NCHS data shows.
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That book is a revenge fantasy about the former art school professor who seduced her, discarded her and destroyed her confidence as a painter.
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Summer uses a family trip to a Caribbean resort to cause chaos and sabotage the relationship.
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Real Madrid's Florentino Perez reportedly made a similar bid, seen as a move to sabotage Barca's transfer plans.
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Unfortunately, a group of eastern kings pillage Sodom and Gomorrah and take Lot captive along with others.
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Triarchy forces that escaped the Battle of the Gullet have been pillaging the mainland, and some come across Aegon’s captors, cutting short a bit of squabbling between the two.
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“Spoliate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliate. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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