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Recent Examples of wrecker
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
CT brewery closes a popular shoreline pub and restaurant location.
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
In Central Arkansas, East End Towing, located on Ironton Road in Little Rock, stayed busy through the night with 12 wreckers going around-the-clock, according to dispatcher Scott Bates, with over 200 calls for service between 7 a.m. and noon on Friday alone.
—Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
In Central Arkansas, East End Towing, located on Ironton Road in Little Rock, stayed busy through the night with 12 wreckers going around-the-clock, according to dispatcher Scott Bates, with over 200 calls for service between 7 a.m. and noon on Friday alone.
—Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrecker
Noun
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Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.—
Thomas Rid,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Nov. 2013
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
24 Oct. 2024
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Franchetti commanded destroyers and aircraft carriers before taking over the entire Sixth Fleet.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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In October 2024, a pair of Chinese destroyers visited Vanuatu, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Wrecker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrecker. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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