corrosive
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He’s always going to stand in that arena, but the legions of people behind him might have a more difficult time doing it, and that is what I think is so threatening and corrosive.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Once a false image takes hold, it is nearly impossible to uproot, and the flood of fabricated content has a corrosive effect: It makes us doubt everything.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
That cyclicality was “really corrosive to our business,” Goeckeler said.
From Barron's • May 20, 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
The other war, the bloody one of twenty years, did not cause them as much damage as the corrosive war of eternal postponements.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing corrosive
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President Obama's Farewell Address
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