annihilating

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This can see insect species proliferate, annihilating many plant species.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024

Siegel compared this to humans intentionally annihilating a group of single-celled organisms in Europa's sub-surface oceans.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

It started with Yordan Alvarez annihilating a 1-1 fastball, sending a low line drive like a Tiger Woods’ 1-iron over the wall in deep right-center.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Here, researchers can systematically release the antihydrogen molecules, measuring how many fall down and escape out of the bottom of the trap before annihilating and how many escape out of the top.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote