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Anthropic’s October Usage Policy Update included a section prohibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

That message — a howl of righteous anger at state corruption and the perversion of religion to serve the nefarious agendas of cruel, power-mad men — is what makes “The Devils” sacrilegious yet not apostate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its usage policy to let its tools end interactions where people are "cruel" - something it said it had done in "rare" cases prior.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

There is something quite cruel and contrived in how Mr. Rock puts his protagonist through trials to serve his superficial Hollywood fable about the high price and sour smell of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“You’re mean and cruel for no good reason at all!”

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

But they’re also crueler, and you can understand why she’ll think and write about anything but.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Trump’s treatment of Cornyn was crueler than that of Cassidy.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

I recognize, of course, that life isn’t fair and that many families are grappling with circumstances far crueler than ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

For a very long time, the god of pleasure who had so appealed to me as a young child was replaced with a crueler god, The Pursuit of Thinness.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022

This way was much crueler, making me face the waste of my life before me.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

I just think one of the cruelest things you can do is to coddle your child in a false reality versus helping them figure out the real reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Almodóvar says it’s the film “where I’ve been cruelest with myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Some Wall Street analysts are insisting that April — contrary to its label as the cruelest month — is actually one of the better months for the U.S. stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis