destructively

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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The scattered waves then interfere constructively or destructively, resulting in bright or dark spots respectively.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem almost unimaginable today.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

Mr Welby said: "Democratic elections are, effectively, reconciled civil war. Reconciliation is about the process in which we can differ hugely, but not destructively."

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2023

The Sceptical school thus made use of the weapon which the Sophists had so destructively employed, directing it, however, chiefly against ethics.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William