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destroys
  • present tense form of destroy (3rd person singular).

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And having to do a stop-and-go, sort of stop and wait for five, 10 seconds, whatever people got, it destroys you on a track so short as well, your chances.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

If voluntarily storing information with Google destroys Fourth Amendment protection, he suggested, why would the same logic not apply to email, documents, cloud photographs, or calendars?

From Slate • May 20, 2026

To be sure, not every production stoppage destroys a well, and Iranian engineers have experience managing production under sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

The research also gained attention from Nanowerk, a global nanotechnology platform, which featured it as a 'Spotlight' under the title "Graphene oxide destroys bacteria without harming human tissue."

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.

From "1984" by George Orwell