Oracle typically issues security patches for Java every quarter but it tore up the usual schedule because the bugs were being increasingly abused.

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But both are so reluctant to overturn settled precedents that it would be surprising if they tore up one that has lasted 33 years.

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She tore up her knee in her junior year and played another two games on it.

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It gave a package of new securities to its creditors and then tore up the old bonds.

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Lashinsky's choice for all-time worst renovation: A family that tore out a long wooden stairway leading up to their lovely hillside home and replaced it with a newly paved path.

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