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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
Lincoln Riley needs a laminated, and larger, play card that doesn’t self destruct, along with his team, in bad weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
"It would be wrong now to say we want to react and destruct. This is not in the team. We are not a team that wants to destruct."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
“Because it is not possible to put the rocket into the planned orbit, we sent a destruct signal to the rocket,” minutes later at 10:51 a.m.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
"Knowing that viruses propagate from one program to another according to specific rules, it would not be unreasonable to assume that almost every micro-computer in the United States is getting ready to self destruct."
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
But note evil always self- destructs just not in a timely way.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
If Palin was thinking back on her own political implosions, she may be misidentifying the “self” who destructs.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2016
"This country could have self- destructed a long time ago, except for the fact that the people who have been denied that American dream for so long still believe in it enough."
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
The Council’s website listed these trips as “delegations to Afghanistan to promote their economy, which has been shattered and destructed in the last two decades of war”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2018
Among other destabilizing factors is his grief, still fresh, after his young son has died and his marriage self destructed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
And Washington put extreme pressure on the Cardinal, which continually self destructed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2016
He didn't spare me, destructed me utterly; but speedily constructed me upon new lines, and told me a lot about Celtic difficulties and how to overcome them.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold
Mr. Montañez Ortiz said destructing furniture was a way “to release a spirit as part of a reconciling.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Young students have grubby fingers, and they’re prone to touching, spilling on, and generally destructing most papers they contact.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2019
But to understand the dynamic that can lead to a destructing hatred between brothers such as Chuck and Jimmy McGill of AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” it helps to read the actual story.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2017
He said that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $535 million to settle SEC allegations that it created a self- destructing CDO for the benefit of a client, hedge-fund manager John Paulson.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 29, 2011
