Example Sentences

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Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem almost unimaginable today.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

"The collision creates a standing wave that does not move. In the case of geometrically frustrated lattice materials, it's the electronic wave functions that destructively interfere."

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

He told the BBC our capacity "to disagree deeply and not destructively" is cause for hope.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

Some tribes have ethical prohibitions against destructively sampling human remains, and many are wary of providing genetic information.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

For the scourge would fall destructively on the impenitent alone.

From Romola by Eliot, George