destructively

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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

But he said our capacity "to disagree deeply and not destructively" is cause for hope.

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

He considered that the devil interfered destructively with the course of nature by illness or pestilence, deformity and famine.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav