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

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

It resulted, however, in the production of a book far preferable to the non-committal, evasive, destructively laudatory biography of a public man, of which every year brings a new specimen.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various