destructively

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To enable direct sound suppression, the researchers use a silk fabric loudspeaker to emit sound waves that destructively interfere with unwanted sound waves.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

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

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

Mr Welby said: "Democratic elections are, effectively, reconciled civil war. Reconciliation is about the process in which we can differ hugely, but not destructively."

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2023

Some tribes have ethical prohibitions against destructively sampling human remains, and many are wary of providing genetic information.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

And how many of the followers of the great reformer adopt his doctrine, and wield his thunderbolts, without perceiving how destructively they recoil on themselves!

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor