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The phrase "actual destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the reality or certainty of destruction, often in contexts discussing damage, loss, or harm.
Example: "The storm caused actual destruction to the coastal town, leaving many homes in ruins."
Alternatives: "real destruction" or "genuine destruction".
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This was the first arms-limitation agreement ever to result in the actual destruction of existing weapons.
Sometimes it even deliberately results in waste and the actual destruction of food, goods and other forms of wealth.
But an accumulating body of evidence suggests that the actual destruction is far worse than the satellite images convey -- and will get even worse in coming years.
He was thus able to witness his imagined scenario of the actual destruction of the Dam, converted into an actual scenario of the imagined destruction of the Dam.
But Dr. Wallace has significant records that point toward something more sinister — the actual destruction of the birds' ability to reproduce.
Terrorism's greatest effects are thus achieved indirectly, through the reaction it inspires, rather than the actual destruction of life and property.
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From the actual nuclear destruction of 1945 to the prospective nuclear destruction that, in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seemed briefly to reach the edge of a world-ending boil, to the possibility today of a global "nuclear winter" set off by a regional war between India and Pakistan, who knows just how the fear of a nuclear apocalypse has embedded itself in consciousness.
But Protestant leaders in the embattled province expressed skepticism, welcoming the move but questioning whether an announcement of intent rather than actual weapons destruction would break the deadlock.
The actual document destruction, which ended last year, probably had no significant effect on any continuing investigations because it only applied to inquiries dropped early.
This linguistic travesty is itself an act of terror, conflating the explosion of an improvised, home-made device with the detonation of a nuclear warhead a Strangeloveian extreme of the Gulliver effect, wherein acts of violence are measured according to which populations they happen to, rather than levels of actual physical destruction.
The company's president, Barry Tenenbaum, said he was helping people understand "the actual magnitude of destruction perpetrated against our civilized society".
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