destroy
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"But any of them can cause significant damage or even destroy potential satellites."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
This is the well known quantum Zeno effect, which would destroy the very phenomenon we want to study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Then a controversy involving the American president helped destroy those vibes completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The four former commissioners have signed a joint letter arguing that the gondola proposal “would enable a private development to permanently and irreparably shrink, degrade, and destroy the integrity of a state park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“You’re the ones who wanted to destroy him!”
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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It destroys the ties that bind and encourages anger and petulance.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
That’s because if the deal goes through it stands a good chance to fail — failure in this case meaning that the combined company destroys more shareholder value than it creates.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Destinus, which specializes in strike and air-defense systems, will lead the consortium and bear responsibility for the kill vehicle, the component that destroys ballistic missiles in space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Many people hold onto the American dream, but given how tough things are getting, you can't be the salmon swimming against the current -- because you get tired, you burn out, it destroys you."
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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It could be hundreds of years before habitats destroyed by wildfires in Wales recover, an environment watchdog has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He is one of many winemakers to be worried in France's main rosé-producing region, where flames have destroyed hundreds of some 30,000 hectares of vineyards, according to expert estimates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
In January 2025 an Air Busan plane was destroyed on the tarmac in Gimhae Airport in South Korea, with investigators concluding a power bank battery pack left in an overhead luggage compartment was the culprit.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Palestinian Civil Defense teams search for the bodies of members of the Daghmash family beneath the rubble of their destroyed home on July 9 in the Sabra neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“One of my mom’s fail-safes, just in case it has to be destroyed in a hurry.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The Spokane fire is the largest of three burning around the north-western US state's second-most-populous city, forcing more than 60,000 people to evacuate and destroying more than 700 buildings.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Businesses aren’t adding or destroying many jobs, what economists call the “low hire, low-fire” economy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
In Spokane County, Washington alone, three major wildfires have devastated the area, prompting the evacuation of almost 65,000 people and destroying more than 700 homes.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Whipped by strong winds amid 100-plus degree temperatures, that spark grew into California’s fourth-largest wildfire on record, ultimately scorching some 429,000 acres and destroying 427 homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
“You could be destroying the what-do-you-call-it. The continuum.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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