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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

Sheridan’s dramas present patriarchal power as protective – a sea change from the Platinum Era prestige themes of power as corruptive.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025

But as “The Last of Us” reminds us again and again, with authority comes power, which can be a corruptive force when wielded with too much self-righteousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025

"We call this corruptive activity," Hanne Aho, the chairwoman of the Union of Journalists in Finland, told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2023

Curiosity in art has always been a corruptive influence, and the art of our century is literally putrid with curiosity.

From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore


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