destroy
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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
Rights group Amnesty International urged countries to "resist" the move, saying the sanctions were "designed to isolate and ultimately destroy" the court.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Myanmar has denied deliberately trying to destroy the minority Muslim population, with a government representative telling the court in January that the allegation was "unsubstantiated".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The team designed the study to determine whether niacin could restore some of those impaired immune cells and help them destroy tumor cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
But the impact of Nixon’s determination to destroy Daniel Ellsberg was still to be felt.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Conservationists argued it destroys habitat for rare species and reduces the forests’ ecological value.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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
"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“It destroys almost any aspect of a girl’s life and it doesn’t deliver any benefit,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But dividing by zero destroys the entire framework of mathematics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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The Saudi-led coalition separately said Tuesday that it destroyed a ballistic-missile launch platform in Sana’a and a storage facility at a mountainous site in Saada containing 20 ballistic missiles, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The researchers also designed the particles to avoid being immediately destroyed by the immune system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Many homes in Malibu were also destroyed last year in the Pacific Palisades fire, though Paradise Cove remained unscathed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Meanwhile, a Saudi-led military coalition said its fighter jets had destroyed more than 300 "high-value" targets in strikes supporting the offensive.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Hundreds lost their jobs when the forest was destroyed.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Bass has been dogged by high unfavorable ratings since the Palisades fire, which broke out in January 2025 while she was out of the country, destroying thousands of homes and leaving 12 dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In “Digger,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cruise is the one destroying the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Botswana has more than 130,000 elephants and communities living alongside them have long complained about animals destroying crops, damaging property and sometimes killing people.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
“Tell you one thing. Wishtree or not, this oak is destroying the walkways. Messing with the plumbing, too. Roots go on forever.”
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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