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Free sign upThe phrase "a destructive combination of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or elements that, when combined, lead to harmful or negative outcomes.
Example: "The report highlighted a destructive combination of poor management and lack of resources that ultimately led to the project's failure."
Alternatives: "a harmful mix of" or "a detrimental blend of".
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The Elian Gonzalez case grows more tangled and charged by the hour, and the fate of the young Cuban boy is now yoked to a destructive combination of cold-war animosities and presidential politics.
It is sad to see a French side so lacking in attacking ideas and Saint-Andre's decision to pick Michalak ahead of Francois Trinh-Duc was symptomatic of a man suffering with a destructive combination of amnesia and confusion.
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Fast fading is the result of the constructive and destructive combination of randomly delayed, reflected, scattered, and diffracted signal components.
Because the frequency offset translates into the possibly destructive combination of the incoming streams, it is impossible to correct the multiple CFOs at the receiver.
Others function as agents that prevent deterioration of fats in plant tissues and seeds caused by destructive combination with oxygen.
And regardless of unequivocal linkages between this particular storm and manmade climate change, questions related to future human-caused changes — how they will make this type of event more likely and destructive, through a combination of sea level rise, extreme weather trends, and vulnerability of coastal populations and infrastructure, deserve to be asked and may be much easier to answer.
Few things are more self-destructive than a combination of high entitlement and a lazy work ethic.
After cooling, a combination of destructive and non-destructive testing, expert judgment, and calculations is used to decide whether the structure should be demolished or repaired, or can continue to be used without repairs or rehabilitation.
Extremely dangerous Hurricane Maria plowed across Puerto Rico Wednesday morning, inflicting a disastrous combination of destructive winds, tremendous rainfall and coastal inundation from surging ocean waters.
An international audit of the health of the oceans has found that overfishing and pollution are also contributing to the crisis, in a deadly combination of destructive forces that are imperilling marine life, on which billions of people depend for their nutrition and livelihood.
The vicious storm is next set to hit Florida's west coast hardest, with a combination of destructive winds and a devastating storm surge.
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