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corrosive

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adj.consuming, wearing; bitter

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Clearly, we need far stronger protections that address the corrosive effects on society of this kind of technology.

UNCONTROLLED AI CAN ENDANGER PEOPLE’S LIVES. WE MUST ENFORCE STRONGER SAFEGUARDSKATE CRAWFORDAUGUST 11, 2021TIME

In the US, this attitude has been corrosive to support for government funding of important high-tech industries like chip fabrication, which, as Jeremy Hsu writes, is one reason America is racing to catch up to manufacturers overseas.

THE POWER OF USMICHAEL REILLYJUNE 30, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Those kinds of antics, those kinds of threats, they’re really corrosive.

COMPANIES CONDEMN GEORGIA'S RESTRICTIVE VOTING LAW AMID PRESSURE CAMPAIGN FROM ADVOCATESMADELEINE CARLISLEAPRIL 2, 2021TIME

We need to worry about Q because the long-term effect is corrosive to democratic values.

QANON HAS BECOME THE CULT THAT CRIES WOLFKALEIGH ROGERSMARCH 26, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

Concerns over privacy and the corrosive effects of social media on politics have made it beneficial for politicians around the world to go after Big Tech.

AUSTRALIA WANTS FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE TO PAY FOR NEWS ON THEIR SITES. OTHER COUNTRIES THINK IT’S A GOOD IDEA TOOGERRIT DE VYNCKFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST

They exert a caustic or corrosive action on animal and vegetable substances.

COOLEY'S CYCLOPDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PROFESSIONS, AND TRADES..., SIXTH EDITION, VOLUME IARNOLD COOLEY

Number Three was insulated against a frigid but relatively non-corrosive atmosphere.

UNWISE CHILDGORDON RANDALL GARRETT

It dissolves mercury, and with it forms corrosive sublimate.

HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Many corrosive preparations are recommended for the cure of this disease, but I have decided objections to one and all of them.

A TREATISE ON SHEEP:AMBROSE BLACKLOCK

This liquor is very corrosive, and tinges animal substances of a blackish brown colour.

HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEY

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