wrecking ball
noun
: a heavy iron or steel ball swung or dropped by a derrick to demolish old buildings
called also wrecker's ball
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With a potential fire sale of the residential, hotel and retail project approaching, a far more complex and expensive question looms over one of the region’s all-time real estate catastrophes: Can it be saved from the wrecking ball?
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Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
Which means puberty literally takes a wrecking ball to Riley’s emotional stability, signaling the arrival of Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
But instead of a dramatic boom of a dynamite implosion or the smack of a wrecking ball striking the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, all that spectators heard Friday were creaks.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
Shopping trends and consumer preferences have caused malls around the country to face the wrecking ball.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024
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Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
Which means puberty literally takes a wrecking ball to Riley’s emotional stability, signaling the arrival of Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
But instead of a dramatic boom of a dynamite implosion or the smack of a wrecking ball striking the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, all that spectators heard Friday were creaks.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
Shopping trends and consumer preferences have caused malls around the country to face the wrecking ball.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024
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“Wrecking ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrecking%20ball. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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