destruction
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New surface receptors can then recognise and are able to attach to cancer cells - like a lock and key - and mark them for destruction.
From BBC
Its State Farm insurance policy, still in effect when the fire started, had a payout of up to $36 million for total destruction.
Discovery shareholders would “incur significant costs and potentially considerable value destruction,” the company says.
In the year after fire swept through Altadena, man and nature have camouflaged the destruction, to some extent.
From Los Angeles Times
The town’s moment in the spotlight was its destruction.
From Los Angeles Times
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