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as in devastation
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
the violent storm resulted in the destruction of their tree house
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as in downfall
something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life
alcohol will be her destruction if we don't intervene to help her
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Recent Examples of destruction
The install labor is about the same, but the pin foundation doesn’t need any excavation, so time and labor is saved there, along with the fact that there is no destruction and impact to the earth.
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Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
This is the only book where Earth's destruction is merely a mildly inconvenient plot twist.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Judge denies defense request for mistrial Judge Arun Subramanian denied a request from Combs’ defense for a mistrial after the prosecution asked a witness about the destruction of fingerprint evidence.
—Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
For Tuesday's mission, SpaceX made significant modifications to the upper stage based on lessons learned from previous flight tests, including the last two that resulted in the destruction of the Starship.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 27 May 2025
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Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
This is the only book where Earth's destruction is merely a mildly inconvenient plot twist.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Judge denies defense request for mistrial Judge Arun Subramanian denied a request from Combs’ defense for a mistrial after the prosecution asked a witness about the destruction of fingerprint evidence.
—Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
For Tuesday's mission, SpaceX made significant modifications to the upper stage based on lessons learned from previous flight tests, including the last two that resulted in the destruction of the Starship.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for destruction
Noun
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Have a mimosa and toast to the downfall of crappy men in music!—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
30 May 2025
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Coming from the company of her ex-boyfriend, who had broken off all contact with her after her downfall, the demands of repayment contributed to the mental state that resulted in Kim Sae-ron’s death, according to her family.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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Smoke follows a detective (Jurnee Smollett) and an arson investigator (Taron Egerton) who are trying to catch a pair of serial arsonists wreaking fiery havoc across the Pacific Northwest.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
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Infusing the trenches with Allen and Hargrave should make for more havoc in one-on-one matchups.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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As technology goes, this is a familiar cycle: innovation, monetization, ruination.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
5 May 2025
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The sense of ruination experienced by the organizers of those art spaces was something familiar to Quraiqi, who wrote on his Instagram this year that Israeli forces had destroyed his studio.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The money to pay for the additional costs will be taken from the contingency fund for Project 2, the demolition and reconstruction of the southeast portion of the school which is expected to cost nearly $102 million.—
Bob Skolnik,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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If the meltdown occurs in the next 10 days or so, the error is reversible, as the major demolition of Line 2 will not have started and that tube can be kept open, with repairs instituted nights and weekends only.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2025
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Nearly three months after 19-year-old twin brothers were found dead atop a mountain in northern Georgia, authorities have ruled their deaths a double suicide.—
Melissa Noel,
Essence,
28 May 2025
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Hackman's cause of death was heart disease, with advanced Alzheimer's as a contributing factor.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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The researchers’ hauls add to a growing body of evidence from Maine to Florida that Atlantic sturgeon are slowly staging a comeback since overfishing brought them to the edge of extinction in the U.S. during the 20th century.—
Benjamin Cassidy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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In comparison with background levels of extinction, all of our sources said that current extinction rates are much higher.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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Greif: This is Boston’s undoing, because while the Knicks have played with an undeniable resolve all postseason — multiple comebacks secured their first-round victory against Detroit, too — they’ve also been undeniably flawed.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
10 May 2025
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While the future of the agency is unclear, Trump may do good on the undoing of the NEA.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
5 May 2025
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One of the key themes of Part II is the fact that everyone is only seeing things from their perspective; all these characters who are suffering loss and passing that suffering on to others are doing so in ignorance.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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Being moved to the rear of the field also resulted in the loss of Ericsson's and Kirkwood's prize money and the championship points from their original finishes.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2025
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“Destruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destruction. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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