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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bureaucracy was also a necessary evil to cope with the ravages of war.
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Doubtless photography is making the same ravages on this side of the Channel as it is with us.
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His skin was unmarked, unlined; the flesh of youth, untouched by time or the ravages of experience.
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Perhaps she chose to save herself from what she foresaw as the ravages of vengeance.
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Quarterback John Elway, 36, continues to defy the ravages of time.
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She was beautiful - painfully thin, but beautiful, even with the ravages of drug abuse drawing her face.
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The ravages of the Napoleonic Wars hit the merchant guilds particularly hard.