destructively

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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The scattered waves then interfere constructively or destructively, resulting in bright or dark spots respectively.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem almost unimaginable today.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

He told the BBC our capacity "to disagree deeply and not destructively" is cause for hope.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

In short, military men foresaw and predicted precisely such an attack as was so destructively made at a later date by the king's forces under Arnold.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.