destructiveness

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Now a recent study in the journal Science offers a glimmer of hope to bat-fans everywhere: Despite the destructiveness implied by its name, P. destrucatans is actually less destructive than previously believed.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

Magnitude is far from a complete measure of a specific quake’s destructiveness.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024

Yet the theme persists, from the singular destructiveness of the kaiju to the way that people onscreen watch their rampages through televisions and the Internet, observers of the existential changes upending the world.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

Ms Pollack, the Cornell president, said in a statement on Sunday: "The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

The prospect of a general and permanent lowering of environmental resistance becomes grimly and increasingly real with each passing year as the number, variety, and destructiveness of insecticides grows.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson