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corrosive

[kuh-roh-siv] / kəˈroʊ sɪv /


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"No child should be targeted under 16 for social media - it is addictive, it is corruptive, it is corrosive and it's predatory."

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

Annika Martin, lead counsel on the case, said the content is corrosive to society as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

He’s always going to stand in that arena, but the legions of people behind him might have a more difficult time doing it, and that is what I think is so threatening and corrosive.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Once a false image takes hold, it is nearly impossible to uproot, and the flood of fabricated content has a corrosive effect: It makes us doubt everything.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

On December 16, 1989, thousands of people took to the streets of Timisoara to protest his corrosive regime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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