destructive
Example Sentences
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The best horror villains are not only terrifying but complicated, their destructive persona hiding a far more vulnerable being underneath.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Leo has denounced the race for AI in the military field, saying that "delegating decisions concerning the life and death of human beings to machines" is a "destructive spiral".
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
I prefer to be skeptical about A.I. because people have already found so many destructive uses for it and I don’t trust Sam Altman or his competitors as far as I can throw them.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
Mr. Vance co-sponsored the bill with then Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown after Norfolk Southern’s destructive derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Her dad had seen all the same changes in the Sierra Nevada that she had in the past few years: bigger, more frequent, more destructive wildfires.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Vocabulary lists containing destructive
Latin Love, Vol I: struere
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George's Key to the Universe, Lessons 1–5
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