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bane

[beyn] / beɪn /


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The latest worries were triggered last Friday on news from Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence start-up that has been the bane of software companies this year.

From Barron's

For now, "brain fry" is primarily a bane for software developers given that AI agents have excelled quickly at writing computer code.

From Barron's

But we also saved species that were headed for oblivion, including the wild turkey, the wood duck, the bald eagle and—that bane of airports and golf courses everywhere—the Canada goose.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ironically, a powerful German military, the bane of Europe in the first half of the 20th century, is now essential to its security in the 21st.

From The Wall Street Journal

Besides, high cholesterol is the bane of men in my family, not cancer — so why worry?

From Los Angeles Times