destruct

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By combining their results, researchers can better study neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, offering insight into why the universe did not self destruct immediately after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

"It would be wrong now to say we want to react and destruct. This is not in the team. We are not a team that wants to destruct."

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

“Because it is not possible to put the rocket into the planned orbit, we sent a destruct signal to the rocket,” minutes later at 10:51 a.m.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

The sooner more high school kids realize they are better off without high schools the better so to force the system to creatively destruct.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017

On the other hand, if no one finds out before V-Day, all the PC's in the country, or Jesus, even the world, self destruct at once.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn