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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

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

The biggest pressures come from farming, which can destroy the habitats wildlife depends on, and burning fossil fuels for energy, which drives climate change.

From BBC ● 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

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

Antigone loses her life and Creon, for all intents and purposes, destroys his own, suffering the deaths of his most cherished loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I'm even trembling. The truth is that for those of us from Villena, this destroys us. It's part of our heritage, of our wealth," the mayor said.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

During a crisis, support is often essential to prevent a downward spiral that destroys the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The salt in seawater also corrodes metal and destroys electrical connectors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The road was completely destroyed, Zakhavko said, with blast craters every few feet and utility poles lying across it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

“They have destroyed a lot of buildings to build these outposts, and that is something that can’t be undone, but they could easily leave these giant dirt berms where they are.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

As a native elm tree, it also resisted Dutch Elm disease, which destroyed most of the 30 million elms around the UK in the 1960s.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The researchers also designed the particles to avoid being immediately destroyed by the immune system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Library of Congress collection was also destroyed, with some 3,000 books going up in flames.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Researchers investigated whether destroying fat cells could help address this problem.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 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

But if - as seems the case right now - the chances of anyone facing consequences for destroying a heritage site are close to zero, then there is all but no real deterrent.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

We went from playing Super Smash Bros. and ordering pizza to meeting my dead grandmother, being chased by a River God, fighting trolls, coming face-to-face with Bulgu, destroying a building, and slaying a sea serpent.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer