destroy
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Kafka’s posthumous fortune owes principally to the evangelism of his friend, Max Brod, who refused the author’s dying request to destroy his papers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The Iron Dome is an advanced Israeli air defence system used to intercept and destroy a range of aerial missiles, rockets and drones.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
“You can blow everything up — destroy it all,” one Chinese official told The Times, describing the Americans, “but you don’t have a strategy.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have shown that bistrifluron, a chemical that blocks the formation of new termite exoskeletons, can destroy drywood termite colonies by interfering with the insects' ability to grow.
From Science Daily • May 9, 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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