destructive
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And if he's still around during the death overs, Buttler is even more destructive - striking at 184 between overs 16 and 20 compared to 143 at the top of the innings.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
California has taken significant steps to increase the odds of homes surviving wildfires in recent decades, in response to increasingly destructive wildfires fueled partly by global warming and a history of forest mismanagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Nelson, who grew up in rural Abbott, Texas, and has a home there, called attention to the destructive environmental effects—“water thieving,” he wrote—and the impact on farmland, including small family farmers’ livelihoods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In his desire to portray Adrian’s immersion in parasocial worlds filled with shadowy, destructive figures, McElwee’s own perspective was equally one-sided.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
From an adult’s point of view, I was destructive and out of control, but as a child I didn’t think of it that way.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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