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 unjust, unequal, prohibitory system of duties, which operates most destructively on the interests of the people of the frontier. 3d.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)