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
On its coal-dust-begrimed surface, Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play “The Hairy Ape” is a stark, dramatically propulsive illustration of how brutal, underpaid manual labor can dehumanize and destroy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Magnetic effects could destroy them, just as the pair density wave explanation predicted.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
All the education you got, pretending to be a whatnot—what good was any of it, if you can destroy the rest of your life with a single outburst?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
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
"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Stanford researchers have identified a previously unknown immune cell that destroys nearby cells by exploding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
“In the Talmud, it says, ‘Whoever destroys a single life has destroyed the entire world.’
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
One resident told AFP news agency "there were many, many drone strikes", and that some Eritrean lorries had been destroyed.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
"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
And a British battleship shelled and destroyed a Turkish fort guarding the Dardanelles, the narrow sea channel leading from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and Russia beyond.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
Researchers hope that learning how to manipulate bacterial communication could eventually provide a foundation for therapies designed to steer microbial communities toward healthier states rather than simply destroying them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In “Digger,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cruise is the one destroying the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Seizing and destroying them represents a significant penalty.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You could be destroying the what-do-you-call-it. The continuum.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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