destructive
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Pratt entered the mayoral race a year after he lost his home in the devastating fires in the city in 2025, which were some of the deadliest and most destructive blazes in the area's history.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
"Given that turbulence is known to be a destructive agent, the question remains, how does it create a constructive, large-scale field?"
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
The fictional movie he’s making looks stiff, a period epic about Spain’s colonialist withdrawal from the Sahara in the 1930s, which doubles as a metaphor for the father’s destructive absence from his now-adult child’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Musk on X said he would appeal the case as the "jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case" and that to "loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
It was that destructive single-minded love of his.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing destructive
Latin Love, Vol I: struere
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George's Key to the Universe, Lessons 1–5
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