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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

“Outside of these walls is a world that can be cruel, uncertain, and dangerous for people like us but inside these walls at this rave, we are truly free.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A governor at HMP Wandsworth accepted in evidence that lack of knowledge of TPIMs by prison staff had resulted in "unintentionally cruel" treatment of Uddin.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Ericka at first takes only a nominally enthusiastic attitude toward vying for the crown, and she’s not particularly antipathetic to Paulina either—at least until she witnesses Paulina’s cruel and domineering behavior toward her fellow students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The words hit me like a cruel punch.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But they’re also crueler, and you can understand why she’ll think and write about anything but.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

To Valerie’s credit, she transformed her “Room and Bored” struggles into an Emmy-winning performance on its crueler version, “Seeing Red.”

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

I recognize, of course, that life isn’t fair and that many families are grappling with circumstances far crueler than ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Seven years later, the group has returned with sharper tools and a crueler edge, armed with a transformed legal and cultural landscape.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025

This way was much crueler, making me face the waste of my life before me.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

After his electoral defeat in 1912, Candice Millard writes in “The River of Doubt,” Roosevelt “sought to purge his disappointment by throwing himself headlong against the cruelest trials that nature could offer him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Some Wall Street analysts are insisting that April — contrary to its label as the cruelest month — is actually one of the better months for the U.S. stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

These are the cruelest days of harvest, when the sun turns fields into slow ovens and the heat climbs before breakfast, holding on until the stars are out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

This felt like the cruelest thing she’d ever done, killing Natalie’s hope.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix