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Brahms went so far as to retrieve letters he’d written to friends and destroy them, erasing the past “so far as he can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“If they destroy the Lakers, guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start the proletariat revolution. I think that the closest we’re getting to class consciousness is fast food and sports teams.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

In one silent detail, Winter puts his laptop in the microwave, planning to destroy his cravings before he types the wrong thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

An impact large enough to create such an enormous scar might be expected to destroy a moon as small as Phobos.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

If only Clare had not gathered the mushrooms in one spot, the humans might not have felt compelled to destroy them.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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

A leaky pipe destroys an entire rack of pressed botanical samples: it’s the diamond.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

"Almost everything from antiquity has been destroyed," Seiler said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Among them, “the lasting myth” that Clara “did not mourn her husband, and instead was an adulteress who destroyed scandalous love letters to the young man who was daily at her house.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

During the dramatic flooding of the Long Beach peninsula caused by Hurricane Marie, some 20 homes were evacuated, and portions of the boardwalk were destroyed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Then a storm rolled through and destroyed them overnight.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“What did you mean when you said that you believed you destroyed the page?”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

"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

Ron Bath was flying his RF-4 Phantom military jet at nearly 700 miles an hour over the Nevada desert when it smashed into a bird, destroying one of the engines and part of the wing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Even if it somehow fell into the wrong hands, there was no way for an outsider to open it without destroying its contents.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti