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What could be driving such an annihilatory wave to almost unimaginable levels?

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2018

There was no annihilatory reaction when Soviet and U.S. rockets hit the moon; there is no such reaction when particles streaming from the sun encounter the earth's atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we return to a void, such as some interpreters of the Vedas declare, then surely this urge within mankind toward this annihilatory state would hardly be expected.

From Cosmic Consciousness by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)

Schiller had published, not long before, his annihilatory review of Bürger's poems, which did so much to put that poet out of serious consideration for the remainder of his days.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

The outraged and annihilatory Mrs. De Peyster gazed at Matilda, utterer of practical common-places.

From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy