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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

The scattered waves then interfere constructively or destructively, resulting in bright or dark spots respectively.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2024

Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem almost unimaginable today.

From Salon Feb. 24, 2024

But he said our capacity "to disagree deeply and not destructively" is cause for hope.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2023

In short, military men foresaw and predicted precisely such an attack as was so destructively made at a later date by the king's forces under Arnold.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.




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