destroy
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“We will not let you destroy that museum,” he said.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
In one silent detail, Winter puts his laptop in the microwave, planning to destroy his cravings before he types the wrong thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Drywood termites are remarkably good at disappearing into the very material they destroy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
But it saves us from a grave mistake, he wrote, “that can destroy or damage hope and make a bad situation worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“You come one step closer, and I’ll destroy these!”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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A wildfire that destroys energy generation facilities during a significant heat wave, for example, could cause enough capacity loss to generate the use of these tools, said Ackemann.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I'm even trembling. The truth is that for those of us from Villena, this destroys us. It's part of our heritage, of our wealth," the mayor said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Stanford researchers have identified a previously unknown immune cell that destroys nearby cells by exploding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
It destroys the ties that bind and encourages anger and petulance.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
The physiological effect of DDD is probably unique among insecticides, for it destroys part of the adrenal gland — the cells of the outer layer known as the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone cortin.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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During the dramatic flooding of the Long Beach peninsula caused by Hurricane Marie, some 20 homes were evacuated, and portions of the boardwalk were destroyed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Among them, “the lasting myth” that Clara “did not mourn her husband, and instead was an adulteress who destroyed scandalous love letters to the young man who was daily at her house.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The researchers also created matched control compounds that could bind to NUDT5 without causing the protein to be destroyed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
In it, she said Law destroyed her life.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Just because the Academy was destroyed does not give us permission to become the very people who we dedicated our lives to capturing,” Callaway said.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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At Olympic and South Lake, where encampments line the street and a fire once spread into a church parking lot, destroying vehicles, there’s a concrete triangle that was heaped with trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those bodies subsequently melted, destroying the physical evidence and making the oldest chondrules much harder to find in surviving meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Plus, Kuehne+Nagel struck a deal with Amazon, and scientists see progress in fighting disease destroying Florida’s orange groves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," he wrote on social media.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
No acknowledgment of the lives we’d be destroying.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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