destructive
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It became one of California's most destructive fires on record, and the city's response has been heavily criticised.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
One of the Pacific Ocean's most powerful early season storms did more than bring destructive weather.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
After a series of destructive wildfires in Northern California and the 2017 Thomas fire in Southern California, the state legislature began to explicitly focus on funding wildfire mitigation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
His father, the old radical, responds: “There is something good about being in the crowd, about being comrades, shoulder to shoulder with others. And I think there is also something absolutely destructive about it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
In trying to get rid of one insect, they have brought on a scourge of a much more destructive one.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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