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destroy

[dih-stroi] / dɪˈstrɔɪ /


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In one silent detail, Winter puts his laptop in the microwave, planning to destroy his cravings before he types the wrong thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Researchers focused on a model proposing that gravity itself could help destroy quantum superpositions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the early 2000s, when citrus-canker lesions dotted Florida oranges, state contractors fanned out with woodchippers to destroy trees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

She said the order told her they had been obliged by law to destroy many of the other records she asked for.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Sender and receiver both destroy the one-time sheet so it can never be used again.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

A wildfire that destroys energy generation facilities during a significant heat wave, for example, could cause enough capacity loss to generate the use of these tools, said Ackemann.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

During a crisis, support is often essential to prevent a downward spiral that destroys the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Stanford researchers have identified a previously unknown immune cell that destroys nearby cells by exploding.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The researchers also created matched control compounds that could bind to NUDT5 without causing the protein to be destroyed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Recent weeks have seen a sea wall damaged in Long Beach, staircases destroyed in San Diego County and dozens of oceanfront mansions tagged as unsafe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Humboldt Bay, the rugged, often cold bay that is the second-largest in California, is notorious for breakers, or massive white foam waves, that have swept people out to sea and destroyed ships like Raxa’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

He added that people should learn from Princess Diana's example, and that for anyone being "destroyed daily" by the tabloid press, it must be a "cancerous influence" on their lives.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Their home has been destroyed and they’re moving to Ateneo, which has become a sanctuary for the displaced, in five days.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Plus, Kuehne+Nagel struck a deal with Amazon, and scientists see progress in fighting disease destroying Florida’s orange groves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

But if - as seems the case right now - the chances of anyone facing consequences for destroying a heritage site are close to zero, then there is all but no real deterrent.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet, wiping out thousands of houses, destroying energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead or missing.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Of course, you may,” Miss K told him, thereby destroying Ralph’s plan to practice.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary




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