wreaking

present participle of wreak

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Verb
  • Georgia’s human rights ombudsman on Tuesday accused police of inflicting torture on people arrested during the protests.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The result is an Introduction that gives readers a potentially overwhelming amount of information without inflicting a panic response in them.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • His proposals include reducing federal incentives for clean energy, curtailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate emissions, and imposing new tariffs that could increase the costs of clean energy technologies.
    Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Some experts are wary that a new administration that is less focused on renewable energy could thwart some of solar’s growth by diminishing the IRA tax credits or imposing tariffs that could increase the cost of building solar panels.
    Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • That means not just naming your values and putting them in a frame on the boardroom wall, but also making a real effort to create and share stories that speak to those values.
    Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • This means sometimes putting long-term trust above immediate profits.
    Mustafa Gandhi, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Wreaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wreaking. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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