destruct

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By combining their results, researchers can better study neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, offering insight into why the universe did not self destruct immediately after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

"It would be wrong now to say we want to react and destruct. This is not in the team. We are not a team that wants to destruct."

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

“A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 ... because there was no possibility of achieving the mission,” the agency said in a brief memo.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

Humans will eventually self destruct due to their inability to control their inborn dichotomies of love vs. hate, good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and moral vs. immoral.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2018

Dr. Stone asked me to run destruct tests on the whole assembly, which I did.

From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John