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destroy

[dih-stroi] / dɪˈstrɔɪ /


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And here’s where I counter that a movie about how algorithms destroy humanity has to have some credible humans in it, if only to illustrate its own point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Since becoming a father he finds himself thinking, “Obviously we don’t want to destroy the world, but what do we want to preserve and what kind of world do we want to build?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

CAR-T cell therapy works by supplying T cells with new genetic instructions that help them identify and destroy cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

He was fined more than £60,000 for his behaviour at the 2025 Australian Open, which included trying to destroy a net camera, and had an infamous meltdown later that year at the US Open.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

They wanted to destroy everything to satisfy their stupid pride.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Zoe nearly destroys Rushville to save herself, while John almost violates his principles to seize the ring from Hal, per the Guardians’ orders, and take out Zoe.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The author’s careful research destroys many Victorian myths about the lives and fates of these women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

These disabilities can occur because a stroke deprives parts of the brain of oxygen or causes bleeding that destroys brain cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It destroys the quality of our education… We cannot study normally."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

But a closer look at the data destroys this theory.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

“Neither alive nor dead,” she writes, “suspended between present and past, peat is one of the strongest and most resilient resources on our planet. And yet, it is easily destroyed by human hands.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“They have destroyed a lot of buildings to build these outposts, and that is something that can’t be undone, but they could easily leave these giant dirt berms where they are.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"A charge density wave is just a collective electronic state that is modulated in space, so there is no reason for them to respond to magnetic fields, let alone be destroyed by them," Madhavan said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Betrawati straddles flood-devastated Rasuwa and Nuwakot, and is part of the Bidur municipality, where the government estimates more than 3,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Double ace Lilya Litvyak had destroyed eleven enemy planes by herself in less than a year, plus the observation balloon.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Researchers hope that learning how to manipulate bacterial communication could eventually provide a foundation for therapies designed to steer microbial communities toward healthier states rather than simply destroying them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bass has been dogged by high unfavorable ratings since the Palisades fire, which broke out in January 2025 while she was out of the country, destroying thousands of homes and leaving 12 dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet, wiping out thousands of houses, destroying energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead or missing.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Military analysts say that one potential legitimate use of the large payload bombs would be destroying underground tunnels and bunkers, places ordinary bombs can’t reach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Maybe I should’ve explained that I was the reigning Short-Circuit Scientist, destroying anything and everything electric-powered.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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