destruct

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By combining their results, researchers can better study neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, offering insight into why the universe did not self destruct immediately after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

“A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 ... because there was no possibility of achieving the mission,” the agency said in a brief memo.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

China, like the US, is a "pretty smart adversary", and also probably planned for the aircraft to self destruct or scramble data as a part of the spy espionage mission, Dr Falco said.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023

The sooner more high school kids realize they are better off without high schools the better so to force the system to creatively destruct.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017

Dr. Stone asked me to run destruct tests on the whole assembly, which I did.

From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John