insidiously
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Philip Landrigan, a public health physician and professor of epidemiology at Boston College, told Grist that the crisis has “quietly and insidiously gotten worse while all attention has been focused on the climate.”
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024
Oncogenes are also insidiously adept at generating tumors that over time become genetically "independent" from their origin, so it has been exceedingly difficult for scientists to shut down their replication at the source.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
Perhaps more insidiously, AI can also display biases that get introduced through the massive data troves that these programs are trained on—and that are indetectable to many users.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Two hypnotically absorbing, cryptically titled, insidiously damning panoramas of life in isolated environs: the sun-drenched island of Tahiti in Albert Serra’s “Pacifiction” and a snow-bound Transylvanian village in Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Slowly, insidiously, he fell into the routine of life on the vlei.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
