destruct

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By combining their results, researchers can better study neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, offering insight into why the universe did not self destruct immediately after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

No doubt Arteta will self destruct at some point this season.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

“Rodeo Drive is among the most desirable streets in the world, which means we’re one of the biggest targets. What we do not welcome is people with ill intentions, who are here to destruct property.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2020

Humans will eventually self destruct due to their inability to control their inborn dichotomies of love vs. hate, good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and moral vs. immoral.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2018

He was actually risking his life—or so he believed—to prove that the child could not destruct a human being.

From When I Grow Up by Lowe, Richard E.