corrosive
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That cyclicality was “really corrosive to our business,” Goeckeler said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
"When anger is turned towards communities – whether Jewish, Muslim, or any other – it ceases to be a call for justice and becomes something far more corrosive," he wrote.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Given the chemical’s acidic and corrosive qualities, it would be difficult to load it onto a truck, he noted.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Ground-level ozone, often called “smog,” is a corrosive gas that forms when pollution from vehicles and other sources reacts in heat and sunlight.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Five Soviet spacecraft— Veneras 8 through 12—have landed on Venus and successfully returned data from the surface, no insignificant feat in so hot, dense and corrosive a planetary atmosphere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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