destruction
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Thirty years ago a teenage boy, traveling abroad and without parents for the first time, came upon a scene of staggering destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Perhaps the most textbook example of this value destruction was AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner in 2000, which eventually destroyed an estimated $200 billion of shareholder value.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
After the June 2025 bombings, Tehran may have put its surviving centrifuges there to minimize their risk of destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sinn Féin assembly member Danny Baker said the "main thoroughfare was shut down by large groups of young people determined to cause chaos and destruction".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
I was starting to wonder if Turkey Vulture liked violence and destruction.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
As Perry noted, pesticides are not alone in targeting sperm for destructions.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
Podolyak added that the barrage was “an undeniable manifestation” of Russia’s “terrorist activity, legally documented by numerous destructions and victims.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
The story under that headline reported that Bankman-Fried’s entire fortune had been “wiped out” in “one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Thanks to its legal troubles, Napster itself ended up being much less important as a business than as an omen, a preview of coming destructions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
The eighteenth century was the age of criticism and destructions; the nineteenth should be that of intelligent rehabilitations.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
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