destruction
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The destruction produced one of the most powerful cosmic events ever recorded.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I believe artificial intelligence will be the destruction of the human race,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“This destruction comes on top of everything else — the low salaries, the inflation, the loss of opportunities ... What can we do? Keep on crying? We cannot even cry with so much pain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
In a letter to Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Raskin said Hearn was subsequently arrested and charged with a felony destruction of government property.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hazel looked again at each swirling gateway: a demigod war, the destruction of the Argo II, disaster for herself and her friends.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
“Modernist architecture is endangered,” she added, citing two other recent destructions: a Connecticut home by the Brutalist architect Paul Rudolph and a helix-shaped house by Bruce Goff in Oklahoma.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
One of the most disgraceful destructions of property, recorded in history, is that which was accomplished in Mexico by the first Archbishop of New Spain, Juan de Zumarraga.
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