destroy
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Although this approach can help the immune system destroy cancer cells, it can sometimes cause immune cells to attack healthy tissues as well.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
It is an offence to kill, injure, take or disturb a bat, or to destroy, damage, obstruct or otherwise interfere with a bat roost, breeding site or resting place.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
In studying it further, researchers discovered it was a protein degrader—the drug was able to destroy a problem protein by binding it with the right enzyme to attack a disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
And here’s where I counter that a movie about how algorithms destroy humanity has to have some credible humans in it, if only to illustrate its own point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
He reminded himself that this is part of why he had come to destroy the files.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Zoe nearly destroys Rushville to save herself, while John almost violates his principles to seize the ring from Hal, per the Guardians’ orders, and take out Zoe.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The author’s careful research destroys many Victorian myths about the lives and fates of these women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
These disabilities can occur because a stroke deprives parts of the brain of oxygen or causes bleeding that destroys brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
But what happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world, where spraying destroys not only the insects but their principal enemy, the birds.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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A January 1945 air raid, she wrote, destroyed her home along with her “beloved notebooks + books + letters + pictures” and a red pearl necklace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Within base metals, there are not a lot of good companies,” he said, because mining firms and financiers “have destroyed capital by investing heavily at the wrong times.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Information about the level of damaged capacity is not publicly available but we assume that most of the CHPs are fully destroyed again," said Pavlenko.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Others that have accumulated material from destroyed asteroids and comets, remnants of planetary systems that once surrounded them, tend to look yellow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
“But what about dragons that wouldn’t attack someone? Do they get destroyed too?”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Flames engulfed the 19th century City Hall in Limoges, central France, causing its roof to collapse and nearly destroying the building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Researchers investigated whether destroying fat cells could help address this problem.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
At least 165 of the ships were bottom trawlers, a particularly destructive form of fishing that uses weighted nets that scrape the ocean floor, destroying virtually everything in their path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
In “Digger,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cruise is the one destroying the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
We went from playing Super Smash Bros. and ordering pizza to meeting my dead grandmother, being chased by a River God, fighting trolls, coming face-to-face with Bulgu, destroying a building, and slaying a sea serpent.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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