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destroy

[dih-stroi] / dɪˈstrɔɪ /


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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

They say elephants destroy crops and infrastructure and pose a danger to people, particularly as their range increasingly overlaps with farms and settlements.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Britain gave Washington permission in March to use Fairford for "specific defensive operations into Iran" to destroy Iranian missiles at source.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

“If we destroy civilization, we don’t get that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

If she did, would she destroy the entire world, or save it?

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

From Science Daily ● 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

“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

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

Ritchie destroys all notions of that immediately He stands up and says, “Well, Marv?”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Development and wildfires have destroyed swaths of the plants’ habitat, while climate change is threatening to make much of what remains inhospitable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“When schools are destroyed, when bus shelters are targeted, when transport is attacked, we seek the civil liability of the parents,” Darmanin told local radio station RTL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

As its name suggested, that was the whole point of #MeToo: to create enough solidarity between victims and allies to make it safe for victims to speak out without their lives being destroyed.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

It initiated the Jobsworth award for over-zealous bureaucrats and council officials, and Heap of the Week, in which failing domestic appliances would be destroyed on screen in a variety of ingenious ways.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“One time,” said Mara, “we destroyed a whole city’s economy after all their silkworms died.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

"We're destroying the world as we're trying to save it," Truesdale says of the land clearing he has seen.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Plus, Kuehne+Nagel struck a deal with Amazon, and scientists see progress in fighting disease destroying Florida’s orange groves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Dasch vehemently denied that a fear of getting caught and a desire to save his own life played any role in destroying Hitler's secret attack on America.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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