Junot Diaz

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

American Writer

Adam Lashinsky

What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple's willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product's features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.

American Editor

Molly Bloom

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

American Author

Trent Reznor

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

American Musician

Walter Mosley

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

American Novelist

Wayne LaPierre

Under Obama, we have seen the U.S. military - the most exceptional force for peace in the world - degraded, downsized, decimated and demeaned, resulting in massive international instability and potential threats to our homeland.

American Activist

Steve Backshall

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

Nelson Algren

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.

Martin Scorsese

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

American Director

Paul Butterfield

They want to create rather than decimate.

Often used metaphorically to express severe damage, not always physical destruction.

Metaphorical Usage

'Decimate' implies extensive harm but not total destruction.

Intensity

It carries an emotional weight, suggesting a catastrophe or disaster.

Emotional Weight

Highlights significant reduction in numbers, more than just a small decrease.

Significant Reduction

Doesn't always mean precisely 10% is destroyed; it can be an approximation.

Not Literal

Understand it originated from a specific Roman military punishment.

Historical Origin

The Roman practice is not used today; this usage is mostly historical.

Archaic

 With each passing year, her contributions become more overfishing and habitat destruction have decimated salmon populations, putting the whales at near-constant risk of starvation. These grandmothers’ expertise can mean the difference between life and death for their families–

Inside the killer whale...

 decimated whale populations but it also fuelled the global economy it Chabad wasn't hunting whales because he wanted to drive a species extinct or destroy the ocean it was his livelihood a way to feed his family a part of his identity so these revelations helped lead me to

Measuring the ocean’s...

 and, of course, they've paid more. So it has been a positive story. That's the way things have played out so far. But there is one particular class of worker for whom the story has been quite different. For these workers, technology has completely decimated their work,

How we'll earn money in...

 those predators grow up to protect their forest homes. Unfortunately, both sides of this delicate balance are under threat. Overfishing has decimated shark populations worldwide, and many marine forests are being polluted or cut down for coastal development.

The sharks that hunt in...

 such as zebra and quagga mussels, and sea lampreys that have decimated some indigenous fish populations. On a larger scale, climate change is causing the waters to warm, thus reducing water levels and changing the distribution of aquatic life.

What’s so great about...

 Will our plans be altered? - I think they should be, right? Because now we've got to understand and figure out what's happening, try not to completely decimate their way of being and life in terms of, probably, microbial structures and such.

Sending Humans to Mars:...

 Months of slow pay and no pay have decimated my credit. Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight and then demanding payment arrangements I can't possibly meet.

An honest look at the...

 the city postulates a world post mankind something has happened that's a decimated the human population so these are the city after man is gone and it's just the way that buildings age and crumble and nature takes back some

See an Apocalyptic World...

 It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness,

Sleep is your superpower...

 asian medicines has decimated their numbers worldwide today a pangolin will be taken from the wild every five minutes

Decimate

To destroy or remove a large portion of something.

Often appears as...

To reduce something greatly in number or amount.

Often appears as...

In ancient Rome, to kill one in every ten of a group of soldiers as a punishment for the whole group.

Often appears as...

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