malignant
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A single actor conjures a whole town in crisis in “Kenrex,” the ugly but true tale of a malignant man’s long crime spree in Missouri and his eventual comeuppance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is "in excellent physical condition" after the publication of his annual medical report revealed he had a malignant tumour removed.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
In any case, a person with the psychology of a malignant adolescent is unlikely to think very far past the conviction that wielding awesome powers of destruction is cool.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has Dr. Frankenstein bicker with his creature about her potential existence before deciding against it in fear that “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
And by freezing cells at various points, they believed they could see the actual moment when a normal cell growing in culture became malignant, a phenomenon they called spontaneous transformation.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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