destroy
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Courts have ruled that the doctrine requires private utilities such as Edison to pay for property they destroy, even if they haven’t been found to have acted negligently.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Clean-energy stocks are performing well, but they can still destroy capital if investors buy the wrong company at the wrong price.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Acting like a giant incinerator, the spinning flames destroy many of the particles responsible for dense smoke plumes.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
He added that the proposed development "would be a new city with around 10,000 rooms" and said it would "completely destroy that wild region".
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
BOTHA: Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to know what is or is not for the global good until someone actually teleports, which could, theoretically, destroy life as we know it.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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