destructive
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"We're asked for fossils for use in destructive analysis all the time," Chiappe said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
King Charles is set to intervene in the debate about artificial intelligence, calling on AI industry leaders to prevent it becoming a destructive force.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In other words, we have a larger, more destructive array of cyberattack tools.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The destructive ideological movements I left behind eight years earlier had crossed the ocean to my adopted homeland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Reeking and destructive when they’d been created in the Accelerated Age and still destructive even after they were dead.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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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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