destruction
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The findings come in the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, which killed more than 1,300 people and caused widespread destruction, highlighting the growing risks from a rapidly changing Himalayan environment.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The alternative, though, is to ensure its own destruction.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Few organizations had imagined the destruction of an entire financial district, the loss of personnel, technology, communications and records, and the need to preserve public confidence while much of the city’s infrastructure had ceased functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Energy futures settled lower on Friday on the heels of a report calling for more demand destruction on the horizon.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Why such destruction so many hours after the eruption?”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Renewed tensions in the Middle East since July and destructions of refining capacity in Russia have raised energy costs again, in particular gas prices, leading to higher inflation and central-bank rate-rise expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
As Perry noted, pesticides are not alone in targeting sperm for destructions.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
Podolyak added that the barrage was “an undeniable manifestation” of Russia’s “terrorist activity, legally documented by numerous destructions and victims.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
The story under that headline reported that Bankman-Fried’s entire fortune had been “wiped out” in “one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
In the reign of Harun al Raschid, that most terrible of destructions was at its greatest expansion and intensity.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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