spoliate

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Verb
  • Large pharma companies are also bracing for upcoming drug patent expirations that could wipe out $300 billion in revenues by 2028, putting more pressure on them to offset losses with new products.
    Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Buffalo won the turnover battle, 3-0, wiping out Baltimore's massive edge in total yards, 416-273.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Jalen Hurts has been sacked on 18 percent of pass plays.
    Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • He was not sacked in the game, and Washington was 3-for-4 on fourth-down conversion attempts.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Most Popular Most Popular This beachfront condo building was bought and torn down in South Florida.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Voters agreed to create the Denver Urban Renewal Authority and tax themselves to tear down 30 blocks of existing buildings in the hopes that developers would fill the blank slates with modern structures.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Fishing fleets hailing mostly from East Asia and Europe are plundering the southwest Indian Ocean, which spans from Kenya to the South African coast and includes Madagascar's waters.
    Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • All three were plundered by thieves in ancient and medieval times, so many of the items originally left are no longer there.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • With the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas taking effect, aid convoys seemed to enter Gaza without issues, and no attempts at stealing or looting the aid were reported on Sunday or Monday, according to Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the main U.N. agency that assists Palestinians.
    Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Residents remain barred from certain parts of Los Angeles, as authorities work to bring back utilities (and worry about looting).
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The video was released Sunday by a law firm representing a woman whose house was destroyed by the fire and is suing Southern California Edison, the primary electrical utility for Los Angeles.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • By the time the show opened on Friday, the Eaton Fire, which is now 95 percent contained, had burned over 14,000 acres and destroyed over 9,000 structures in Altadena, Pasadena, and other areas nearby.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • One of them recently bragged about sabotaging previous iterations of the ceasefire proposals.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Pittsburgh Penguins, 18-20-8 Last week: 21 Sean’s ranking: 25 Dom’s ranking: 26 On one hand, Tristan Jarry didn’t singlehandedly sabotage the Penguins’ season.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Her crew pillages the ship for any remaining resources, but their only reward for their betrayal of principles is some lamp oil and six bottles of brandy.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Then, around 614-612 B.C., invaders from Babylonia (modern-day southern and central Iraq) and Media (modern-day western Iran) pillaged and burned the temple as the Assyrian Empire collapsed at the hands of its enemies.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Spoliate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliate. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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