malign
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Yet that’s also how Malone feels about the current climate of Hollywood — a once-stable neighborhood fending off malign forces.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
He added that measures "to deal with malign state actors" were also needed.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
The most important “and, I think, malign, change” has been the arrival of social media—or “antisocial media,” as he calls them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
As if a peculiar and malign abstractness pervaded their mental processes.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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