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destructions

  • plural
    of destruction.
    destruction
    noun
    the act of destroying.

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As Perry noted, pesticides are not alone in targeting sperm for destructions.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2023

Podolyak added that the barrage was “an undeniable manifestation” of Russia’s “terrorist activity, legally documented by numerous destructions and victims.”

From Washington Times Aug. 15, 2023

This means that the two destructions cannot be related to the same event,” Dr. Ben-Yosef said.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2022

The story under that headline reported that Bankman-Fried’s entire fortune had been “wiped out” in “one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2022

There is no trace of general cataclysms, of universal deluges, or of sudden destructions of a whole fauna or flora.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various