pernicious

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The feisty heroine is Iris Hawkins, who, in the course of a tentative love affair with a nerdy engineer named Geoffrey Hale, discovers the pernicious designs of a secret order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

But there are also much more pernicious problems.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 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

“Maybe the gods will help us, thinking we are suitably respectful of pernicious fate.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam