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also bit (at)
as in destroyed
to consume or wear away gradually
the waves were biting at the sand castle I had worked so hard on
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Verb
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In the first incident, a tornado completely destroyed the building.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025 -
Nearly 300 homes have been damaged or destroyed in Oklahoma due to fire.—
TIME,
TIME,
15 Mar. 2025
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They are sourced from nearby Il Buco al Mare, an outpost of the NYC restaurant and can be delivered to cottages or eaten outdoors (weather permitting), in a communal garden area with heat lamps.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night, a new research has found.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But yet over the course of the 20th century, that land base eroded and in some instances slowly, but then in other instances rapidly.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Although economists continue to predict that growing numbers of jobs will require education beyond high school, public trust in the value of higher education has significantly eroded.—
Matt Gandal,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Bitten (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitten%20%28at%29. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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