destructiveness

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Ms Pollack, the Cornell president, said in a statement on Sunday: "The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

“The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community,” Pollack said, noting antisemitism will not be tolerated at Cornell.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023

And so the question was: When we have the capacity for both of these things, what has pulled so much of so-called civilization toward destructiveness?

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

This level of injustice and cruelty can manifest itself in people who have suffered a great deal from its same destructiveness too.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2023

Eventually, all three students would quarrel fiercely, unleashing a cycle of envy and destructiveness that would blaze through the discipline of genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee