destructive
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Those early months of 2025 were undeniably terrifying and inordinately destructive, but they were also ridiculous.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Indonesia has already experienced months of drought, smoke, and destructive fires beginning in August.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Rather than rebuild against lesser opposition following May's punishing defeat, Wardley gambled on an immediate rematch with one of the division's most destructive punchers.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
It’s a semi-immersive thriller about a struggling American actor in London who is hired to record an audio drama and finds the experience increasingly disturbing—and psychologically destructive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Many Kikongo words resemble English words backward and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backward.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing destructive
Latin Love, Vol I: struere
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