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to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters
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Recent Examples of wrecked
Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2026
Lowell plunders an emerald out of a wrecked ship, starts a fistfight with a local ruler, nearly dies when a boa constrictor wraps itself around her neck, and is wounded by an alligator.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
The driver exited the wrecked vehicle, grabbing the child on the way out.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Back on the trail for Hank, the Ghoul and Lucy come across a wrecked vault hidden behind a drive-in cinema.
—Jack King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Davis Fire Department crews tried to free the driver from the wrecked cab, but the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Shots fired outside a north Charlotte’s strip club killed one person and injured another who was discovered in a wrecked car, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 30 Nov. 2025
Members of the reggae community, especially in the western part of Jamaica, found damaged studios and wrecked equipment.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
Many of those games have been thrillers and even wrecked seasons.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2025
Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026
McIndoe really wrecked the curve on this one.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
Debris on the gallery floor indicates that the twin panels were wrecked in situ.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Then the second day, everyone was wrecked.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2026
Inheriting a nation that was wrecked and regionally isolated by war, a younger Khamenei faced the daunting task of resurrecting his fractured economy and society.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
Everything in the guest house got wrecked.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
See artifacts from the coastal Karankawa Indians and a cannon from the 17th-century La Belle ship, which wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay in 1686.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
Rangel went on to describe what happened next, with the men using driftwood oars to attempt to row their vessel to the mainland before heavy winds ran them aground and wrecked the boat.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
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The driver then got out of the wrecked vehicle and fled on foot, police said.
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But the Panthers could only score 10 points, as Denver’s fearsome pass rush wrecked Carolina’s best chance at a Super Bowl win.
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But here, stranded alongside Bradley Cooper (who has the same deer-in-headlights look), she’s completely lost as a Depression-era woman who goes mad after losing a child and directs her fury at a woman who had an illegitimate son with her husband years earlier.—
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Researchers hypothesize that Earhart did not crash at sea, but instead landed and was stranded on Nikumaroro Island, later perishing there.—
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The Palisades fire killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 structures, becoming the third-most destructive fire in state history.—
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One year after the Palisades Fire leveled entire neighborhoods and destroyed thousands of homes, one Malibu resident is stepping up to help rebuild his community with his architectural expertise.—
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His choices allow the viewer to drink in the intimate details of the ruined world.—
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Incredibly, the event has only been scuttled twice in 120 years — first in 1915, when foot-and-mouth disease raged in the livestock community, and then again in 2021, due to COVID-19 restrictions.—
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Search for Likhter-4 vessel A primary focus of the expedition was the vessel Likhter-4, which was scuttled in 1988.—
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By the afternoon, the store had reopened, but the front door's glass remained shattered, with a large banner placed in front of the entrance, the local station reported.—
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The Kohbergers’ pride in Bryan was shattered by the revelation that he was suspected of and later admitted to the slaughter.—
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In this film, the pups get shipwrecked on a mysterious dinosaur island.—
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The show, which ran for three seasons from 1964 to 1967, centered around seven castaways who have to survive after getting shipwrecked on an uncharted island.—
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In 2024, the abanonded LaGrave Field baseball stadium was demolished.—
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The tall high-rise buildings not demolished in Gaza City are seen in the far distance.—
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On Wednesday, numerous commemorations and tributes occurred in the devastated communities and throughout the city and county of Los Angeles —including flags flying at half-staff at City Hall, county buildings and at all state buildings.—
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In the immediate aftermath of the fires there was discussion about maybe there should have been more accessibility and exit routes in the central core of the Palisades that was so devastated.—
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“Wrecked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrecked. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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