abusive
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The San Francisco-based AI lab updated its usage policy to include "a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
“America doesn’t need to choose between responsible innovation and the protection all market participants need from fraudulent and abusive practices. It needs prophylactic rules that reasonably ensure both.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Not unlike the bestselling memoir “Educated” by Tara Westover, who overcomes an abusive childhood in a rural survivalist Mormon family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The report also recommended requiring social media companies to improve protections for electoral candidates online, including rapidly removing abusive content and identifying perpetrators.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing abusive
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