destroy
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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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