corrosive
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My friend called it “toxic,” but I would call it corrosive.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Experts say the age of pipes, the corrosive soil they’re buried in and pressure changes in pipes that send water to hillside neighborhoods all contribute to breaks across the aging system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
I presumed the franchise was beyond repair, that decades of corrosive leadership had ended any hope of turning the ship around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
"No child should be targeted under 16 for social media - it is addictive, it is corruptive, it is corrosive and it's predatory."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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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