destructive
Example Sentences
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It could spare us the costs of the increasingly destructive division between federal funding and state control over its distribution.
The stately “Plastic Cigarette” is a sharp study of two characters who give in to destructive impulses and imagine a better life together but aren’t quite sure how to get there.
His longshot bid for city hall comes on the anniversary of a wildfire that destroyed his home and became one of California's most destructive blazes on record.
From BBC
One year after two of the most destructive wildfires in California’s history erupted just hours apart, survivors commemorated the day in Altadena and Pacific Palisades with a mixture of anger and somber remembrance.
From Los Angeles Times
He added that "such a deep suppression was a clear sign of destructive interference, and it had to be caused by something near the emitters."
From Science Daily
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