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• The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• That was 20 years ago now, and as the clip above shows, the ravages of time have come for us all since then.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Other times, though, the ravages of time have not been kind to the treasured juice inside the bottle.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• To ensure the device survives the ravages of time, the tiny opening was pierced through a thin layer of 24-karat gold.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• Also with the ravages of a generation that takes drugs, that loves, that dies young.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Advertisement From coast to coast this week, the ravages of climate change were clear.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• But below him, an image of Adad, the god of weather, is barely visible – lost to the ravages of time and climate change.
  — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2022
• And yet somehow, back in Gaza, the 20-mile distance that would deliver his parents from the ravages of war to the promise of refuge seems far more remote.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• For much of history, that battle has been waged against microbes, mutations, and the ravages of old age.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
• In remarks Thursday, Francis, 87, said the ravages of climate change will fall hardest on the global poor.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
• Still, the climate crisis is a platform for African progress in ways the fight against apartheid and efforts to limit the ravages of resource extraction weren’t.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
• The climate is still changing rapidly, exposing people who have no choice but to work outside to the ravages of heat.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• Previously, only the first two episodes were believed to have survived the ravages of time, making it onto DVD and Blu-ray in 2014.
  — Vulture, 2 Oct. 2023
• And about the terrified looks on the faces of parents who wonder whether their cherished child is going to survive the cruelty, the ravages of childhood cancer.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• In an effort to shore up against the ravages of overtourism, Venice will start charging certain tourists an entry fee to access the marvels of the delicate floating city.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2023
• The idea is to protect human achievements and physical property against the ravages of nature.
  — Kathy Baughman McLeod, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• In the process, Fuller captures the ravages of war on both soldiers and civilians while also depicting why sometimes fighting becomes the only choice.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• If that isn’t bad enough, foreign investors, in an attempt to escape the ravages of depreciating currencies, run for the hills.
  — Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• The new study also suggests why this particular version of this gene may have helped some avoid the ravages of the worst pandemic in modern history.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Where better than this frozen earth, far from the ravages of human conflict and heat, for an international seed vault and the Arctic World Archive, both of which are just outside of Longyearbyen.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Now the idea is to prepare communities and the landscape for the ravages of climate change while creating jobs and stimulating local economies.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• One of the great unknowns about the mission to Mars, for example, is whether humans can endure the ravages of galactic cosmic rays, the remnants of the Milky Way's celestial violence.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
• The General Sherman, said Ambrose, is valiantly holding forth, defying the ravages of time.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
• The good news is that people can take some simple steps to protect their brains from the ravages of stress and the endocrine disruptors robbing them of clarity, focus, mood and cognitive function.
  — Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Henri Matisse was in his seventies when the ravages of cancer made painting too difficult.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2024
• James Mangold, who also directed 2013's The Wolverine, keeps a tight rein on this nail-biter by making his heroes human and not impenetrable to the ravages of time.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2024
• Apart from the movers, and the booms of Israeli artillery fired toward Gaza, a funereal stillness sits over this small community, whose name has become synonymous with the ravages of Oct. 7.
  — Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• Others are small landholders who’ve seen their children’s college tuition money succumb to the ravages of nature.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• And few challenges are greater and more urgent than protecting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities from the ravages of climate change.
  — Scott M. Moore, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2023
• Today, scientists are continuing to dig up ancient baskets that have managed to withstand the ravages of time.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024