destroy
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Their motion creates electrical resistance and generates heat, which can ultimately destroy the superconducting state.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
They say elephants destroy crops and infrastructure and pose a danger to people, particularly as their range increasingly overlaps with farms and settlements.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Britain gave Washington permission in March to use Fairford for "specific defensive operations into Iran" to destroy Iranian missiles at source.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
“If we destroy civilization, we don’t get that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“You’re the ones who wanted to destroy him!”
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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The author’s careful research destroys many Victorian myths about the lives and fates of these women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Antigone loses her life and Creon, for all intents and purposes, destroys his own, suffering the deaths of his most cherished loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
As this bubble grows, it sweeps outward and destroys dust in its path.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is because the very act of measuring destroys some of the information we are trying to gather.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Construction zones proliferated in the area after the January 2025 fires that destroyed local homes and businesses, resulting in reduced speed limits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
As its name suggested, that was the whole point of #MeToo: to create enough solidarity between victims and allies to make it safe for victims to speak out without their lives being destroyed.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting, Becca Good told a news conference on the lawsuits on Thursday: "The whole world had to watch as our entire universe was destroyed."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
"The whole area is destroyed," the 32-year-old said, adding that residents were being kept away from the strike sites.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The man who destroyed Sarkel was the old tsar of Kievan Rus’.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
At Olympic and South Lake, where encampments line the street and a fire once spread into a church parking lot, destroying vehicles, there’s a concrete triangle that was heaped with trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
"We are growing great jobs based on AI and supporting AI, quite the opposite from destroying jobs by AI," Meier said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity did little to sap demand for hyperscaler stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It consisted of catching and destroying tsetse flies.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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