insidiously
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A stage adaptation of the popular film franchise proves insidiously effective—and refreshingly doesn’t rely on high-tech wizardry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Philip Landrigan, a public health physician and professor of epidemiology at Boston College, told Grist that the crisis has “quietly and insidiously gotten worse while all attention has been focused on the climate.”
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
Oncogenes are also insidiously adept at generating tumors that over time become genetically "independent" from their origin, so it has been exceedingly difficult for scientists to shut down their replication at the source.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
Perhaps more insidiously, AI can also display biases that get introduced through the massive data troves that these programs are trained on—and that are indetectable to many users.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Slowly, insidiously, he fell into the routine of life on the vlei.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
