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destruction

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In one clip, a man says: "This is the last area we can reach. The Israeli army is still nearby. Look at the scale of destruction, they've destroyed everything."

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This year's update focused on regions where the destruction of tropical forest poses a growing threat to birds.

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The prosecutor told the court Dogan had been "unwilling to take responsibility" for a "massive act of destruction of a woman" that had denied her humanity.

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Their public statements have expressed horror over the killing and destruction in Gaza, and the starvation and in places famine caused by Israel's blockades of aid.

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By surging past $4,000 for the first time ever this week, gold is “reinforcing its role as a hedge against accelerating fiat destruction and fiscal instability,” he told MarketWatch.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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