destroy

Example Sentences

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U.S., she held that routing information through a third-party system doesn’t destroy privacy protections.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

There are many narratives going around, and the one I find most interesting or conflicting is from the tech bears who say that AI is so powerful, it’s going to destroy all of software.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“You won’t want to spend hundreds of millions on building a data center that you can destroy by dropping a $7,000 drone on it,” said Justin Alexander, an economist who specializes in the Gulf region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It’s a grim reminder of L.A’.s insatiable appetite to destroy its own heritage and especially devastating to a certain milieu of writers and artists, myself very much included.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

If anything was more feared than an Eye, it was the Eye’s weapon—the source of the knight’s power, cursed to destroy anyone who touched it other than the knight himself.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley