corrosive
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It’s a really corrosive quality to bring to a group activity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Salt also damages buildings, vehicles and other objects, she said, and presents "a problem for animals. Pet owners notice it on their paws. It's simply corrosive."
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
He singled out the U.S. as a leading threat, writing essays that criticized what he described as American arrogance and the corrosive influence of American consumerism—views that prompted peers to call him a “culture warrior.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
I’ve always felt that engagement is better and more corrosive to a dictatorship than isolating them… Secret police never go hungry, armies never go hungry.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
Five Soviet spacecraft— Veneras 8 through 12—have landed on Venus and successfully returned data from the surface, no insignificant feat in so hot, dense and corrosive a planetary atmosphere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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