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destroy

[dih-stroi] / dɪˈstrɔɪ /


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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

CAR-T cell therapy works by supplying T cells with new genetic instructions that help them identify and destroy cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Within hours, the AI breakthrough was overshadowed by fears that AI could destroy humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Papá’s slow, painful abandonment had wounded us deeply at first, but we had managed to get beyond it by telling ourselves we were free spirits and nothing could ever destroy us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

Under some conditions, the collision destroys Theia and creates a broad protolunar disk around Earth.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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

Before I even realize, I’m darting across the street, a queasy feeling in my stomach like I ruined everything—that last brushstroke that always destroys the painting.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

The U.S.’s main air-war command center for the Middle East, located in Qatar, was largely destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"A charge density wave is just a collective electronic state that is modulated in space, so there is no reason for them to respond to magnetic fields, let alone be destroyed by them," Madhavan said.

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

Nepal's latest assessment counts 7,570 private buildings damaged or destroyed, home to nearly 33,000 people based on census data.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The failure of the Nivelle offensive was so demoralizing, it almost destroyed the fighting spirit of the French army.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Under the right conditions, a small star can steadily extract matter from a nearby brown dwarf without immediately destroying it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

In “Digger,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cruise is the one destroying the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Seizing and destroying them represents a significant penalty.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It seemed that nothing could keep Joseph McCarthy from acquiring more power and destroying more lives.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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