pernicious
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In “The Savage Mind,” such an opening emerges in response to the pernicious myth of Manifest Destiny, which Treuer approaches through the lens of the frontier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Skeptics find such programs less pernicious than pointless; a New York Times reporter dubbed them a “kumbaya industrial complex.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Lender losses drive a contraction of credit availability, the lifeblood of modern economies, leading to slowing economic activity and driving further iterations of the pernicious cycle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
He said conversion practices could be "particularly pernicious" in a church setting.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Its pernicious ghost—gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts—haunted every house that he ever lived in.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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