destruction
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"Ananya's work demonstrates that each of these peculiarities can be explained by the same underlying phenomenon: the tidal destruction of a binary system and the capture of one of the stars," Coughlin says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
CK Hutchison launched international arbitration against Panama, seeking over $1.5 billion in damages for the destruction of its port investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
County and other public entities, saying that their failures, including not clearing brush and delayed evacuation warnings, increased the fire’s destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The mechanism has existed since at least the 19th century, but it has only been used a few times, usually in response to severe environmental destruction.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
“But destruction of property . . .” I set my jaw hard and shook my head in denial.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
“Unless something fundamental is done,” he added, “the utility will cause more death and home destructions in 2020.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2019
That dreary year of exile had seemed long enough for earthquakes and destructions, or even for slow decay.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Vocabulary lists containing destruction
Biodiversity and Humans - Middle School and High School
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