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

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

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

"The collision creates a standing wave that does not move. In the case of geometrically frustrated lattice materials, it's the electronic wave functions that destructively interfere."

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

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

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2023

There was little doubt that in the long run ours would be overwhelming, but meanwhile the enemy was strong and destructively inclined.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip