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destroy

[dih-stroi] / dɪˈstrɔɪ /


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The approach involves collecting a patient's own immune cells, genetically modifying them to recognize cancer, and then returning them to the body to seek out and destroy tumor cells.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

Of the existential risk of machines that will either save humanity or destroy it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Weather feeds us, it can destroy us — it rules our existence, he says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"We are constantly grappling with the challenges posed by the sheer scale of these territories... and the organizations' capacity to rapidly rebuild what we destroy."

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

My only choice is to find the toxin Epsilon-5 has made and try to destroy it.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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