destroy
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"Elephants come from time to time from Tsavo and Amboseli. They destroy many farms, not just mine," Michael said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
Critics say it would destroy public support for the program and increase bureaucracy and administrative costs, while barely putting a dent in the funding crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Well, any more habitats you want to destroy before we get back to town?”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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
But conservation groups said the change would open the way to industrial activity that destroys habitats and was at odds with the statute.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
But a closer look at the data destroys this theory.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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"They destroyed my life and I cant go to my work now, I go to the work, I can't, everything has stopped."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Fueled by ample dry vegetation after a snow-poor winter, the Spokane blazes had, by Monday, destroyed more than 700 structures and forced some 67,000 residents to evacuate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Three uncontained wildfires in eastern Washington have burned through more than 8,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of structures since the start of the month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Most of the destruction from the fire, which broke out Friday, was in villages on the Gulf of Corinth including Porto Germeno, where scores of homes are thought to have been destroyed or damaged.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
It was the killer wind that had destroyed Saint-Pierre.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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Businesses aren’t adding or destroying many jobs, what economists call the “low hire, low-fire” economy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Wildfires have forced around 60,000 people to evacuate parts of Washington state, destroying hundreds of buildings and leaving thousands without power.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“That’s really kind of disheartening — that we’ve tried our best to mitigate fires ... yet fires are destroying more homes,” said Amanda Carlson, a research scientist with the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
He slashed back and forth, destroying the demons one after the other while Small Bob the kitten sat on his shoulder, arching his back and hissing.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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