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Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.
I guess the company's sales on Monday afternoon and Tuesday were just so awful that they wrecked the whole quarter."
What Jobs left out of that sentence, though, is a word that has wrecked Apple in the past and could wreck it in the future.
The war he instigated provoked U.N. sanctions that wrecked the Serbian economy.
Marble arms raised for joy in the garden, a slush of sculpture salvaged from wrecked ships around Don d'Carlo's sandstone pen carved from a boulder fallen from that cliff.
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