destroy
Example Sentences
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Now scheduled for further surgery, which aims to cut out or destroy the endometriosis tissue, she told me: "The main thing I want is just a relief of pain. It's like getting my life back."
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
“New tariffs or quotas will not redirect demand for quartz. It will destroy it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 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
He’d probably managed to destroy whatever spell it had by crushing it anyway.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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