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malevolent

[muh-lev-uh-luhnt] / məˈlɛv ə lənt /


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The world’s leading AI labs are grappling with how to prevent or mitigate damage by malevolent users without hampering well-intentioned research queries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Had it heeded a more malevolent sensibility than an instinct to overexplain, it might have been more ruthlessly effective at yucking our yum for road trips.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

It’s like a malevolent Ouroboros, where we can’t tell which is the head and which the tail, or which end is swallowing the other.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2025

“What’s fun about Laura’s perspective is Cherry seems completely unhinged and that there’s a real malevolent undertone to her behavior,” Cooke says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

Now she saw a larger, more malevolent world outside her own.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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