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Recent Examples of wrecker
While waiting for a wrecker to arrive, the squad car was struck from behind by a black Mercedes sedan, according to the statement.
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
CT brewery closes a popular shoreline pub and restaurant location.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
In Central Arkansas, East End Towing, located on Ironton Road in Little Rock, stayed busy through the night with 12 wreckers going around-the-clock, according to dispatcher Scott Bates, with over 200 calls for service between 7 a.m. and noon on Friday alone.
—Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town
CT brewery closes a popular shoreline pub and restaurant location.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
In Central Arkansas, East End Towing, located on Ironton Road in Little Rock, stayed busy through the night with 12 wreckers going around-the-clock, according to dispatcher Scott Bates, with over 200 calls for service between 7 a.m. and noon on Friday alone.
—Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrecker
Noun
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As the sun and Chiron harmonize, face your inner saboteur.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
8 Feb. 2025
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One common tactic saboteurs use is to leak bits and pieces of insider information to distract, stir backlash and ultimately hamper the changes.—
Troy Batterberry,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
24 Oct. 2024
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Kaga: Kure, Japan The Kaga, a helicopter destroyer undergoing conversion into Japan's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained in Kure, a city southwest of Japan's main island of Honshu, according to a photograph captured by a ship spotter on Friday.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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In The Visitor, LaBruce views the titular character (played by drag and burlesque star Bishop Black) not as a destroyer of the British family but as a revealer of all the energy suppressed by their bourgeois, western life.—
P.E. Moskowitz,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Wrecker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrecker. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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