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Example sentences for: destroys

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The New York money-laundering probe destroys the illusion that the Russian economy is becoming civilized.
Despite the slackened selective constraints, mutations can still destroy the incipient functionality of a duplicated gene: for example, by introducing a premature stop codon or a mutation that destroys the structure of a major protein domain.
In support of their hypothesis, they conducted spectral and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments with Fe(VI), finding that it destroys DNA, nucleotides, proteins, and amino acids.
Reviewers pan this mock-documentary about a director named Alan Smithee who destroys the negatives for his forthcoming film.
In South America, El Niño destroys the fishing industry: Peru's economy shrank 5 percent during the '82-'83 El Niño.