devastative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for devastative
Adjective
  • Ragans paired his changeup, knuckle-curve and slider around the devastating fastball.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Search-and-rescue teams were seen working around the clock in the rubble of the once-thriving music venue, as the nation’s emergency operations director, Gen. Juan Manuel Méndez, confirmed the devastating toll.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But what could have been a disastrous situation from the jump has the looks of becoming a positive for Báez and the Tigers.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Apple had seemed to resolve this with its Private Cloud Compute, but then its disastrous Apple Intelligence delays made all that somewhat academic for the time being at least.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Los Angeles region is rebuilding two communities after the most destructive wildfires in Southern California’s history.
    Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Back-to-back-to-back deadly and destructive tornado outbreaks in recent weeks have put a punctuation mark on what’s been an unusually active start to the year for thunderstorms in the United States.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Devastative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devastative. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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