pernicious
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There’s a pernicious form of viral video that’s reshaping our collective reality, and it’s not even related to artificial intelligence.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
“When something is consistently wrong, the good thing is you know not to trust it. But when things are mostly right but sometimes wrong, that’s the most pernicious one.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
High borrowing costs, he said, have had a pernicious impact on lower-income consumers without producing clear gains in inflation.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
The five-year bout of high inflation is part of the pernicious legacy of the coronavirus pandemic that began in 2020.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026
Every day since then on the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and pernicious influences of the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
Vocabulary lists containing pernicious
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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