pernicious
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The professionalization of youth sports—the incursion of for-profit companies strip-mining American childhood—hasn’t only wiped out recreational sports, it’s created a pernicious money culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the pandemic had left a "pernicious legacy", but that teachers across the country were helping the next generation "turn a corner".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lender losses drive a contraction of credit availability, the lifeblood of modern economies, leading to slowing economic activity and driving further iterations of the pernicious cycle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Plenty of members of bookish communities attribute it to plain old greed, but there’s also something more: influencer brain, a pernicious strain of main-character complex.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its consequences for the history of science have been, it seems to me, pernicious.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing pernicious
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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