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In Zaporizhzhia, a region west of Mariupol, the Ukrainian military said that Russian forces had been destroying roads and bridges to slow Ukrainian counterattacks.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

Harry has previously said he stepped back from his royal duties because the "toxic" British press had been destroying his mental health.

From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2022

The agency had been destroying forfeited handguns under an ordinance passed in 1993.

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2018

They weren’t acting out of pure evil, however, but as a way to eradicate the invasive species that had been destroying the lake’s ecosystem, the tui chub fish.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016

That these had been destroying operations, and not those by which the mountains had been formed.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James