despoilments

noun

plural of despoilment
1
as in depredations

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as in embezzlements

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  1. depredations
  2. misuses
  3. decimations
  4. takeovers
  5. ruins
  6. expropriations
  7. extinctions
  8. assumptions
Noun
  • No amount of macho beatdowns in the UFC cage matches on the White House lawn will make anyone forget Epstein’s depredations.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • The striped bass shark depredations have also been occurring off Chatham’s Monomoy Island — a hotspot for seals, which attract great white sharks.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 15 June 2026
Definition of depredations
Noun
  • The decision to hire the Crumbie Law Group to investigate the potential misuses involving city credit cards and other resources was approved by the Board of Aldermen during a special meeting on Wednesday.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026
  • The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) prohibits specific intentional misuses and establishes a 36-month regulatory sandbox.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 May 2026
Definition of misuses
Noun
  • The company also has Fox Nation, a subscription streamer featuring lifestyle and other programming substantially designed to appeal to superfans of Fox News Channel, long the biggest of the 24/7 news operations but facing cord-cutting’s decimations like all its cable brethren.
    — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Definition of decimations
Noun
  • Past teen takeovers have proven the events have the potential to become dangerous.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Puma and Adidas have both expanded flagship race-week takeovers, using premium London retail real estate to anchor performance fashion drops and team merchandise launches.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of takeovers
Noun
  • As a reminder, the Mission San Juan Capistrano tour ends at the ruins of what’s now called the Great Stone Church, which collapsed in an 1812 earthquake that killed 40 Acjachemen worshippers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The engineer flew in from Tampa to try and find her mother, sister, brother-in-law and nephew in the ruins of their nine-story apartment building, sleeping on the ground since arriving two nights ago.
    — Isa Soares, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Definition of ruins
Noun
  • In the wake of the protests, the Environmental Protection and Conservation Authority has denounced the lack of transparency in the projects, which were approved without public consultation and with sudden expropriations of land.
    — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • The expropriations, along with the firings, consolidated state control of the oil sector and, experts say, drained the country of expertise and investment, inflicting lasting damage.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
Definition of expropriations
Noun
  • Instant extinctions are not limited to mechanical innovations like photography and cinematography, however.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Although the cartilaginous fish have survived the last five extinctions our planet has faces, more than a third of shark and ray species are threatened with extinction due to overfishing, habitat loss and climate change.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Definition of extinctions
Noun
  • The second question is cost behavior, meaning what the bill does when tool calls double and when agent volume falls short of the vendor’s assumptions.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • Here is a brief overview and judgement calls of several garden insects that challenge our assumptions about who belongs in which column.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
Definition of assumptions
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