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Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones returns to the hit show as Mrs Bennet, who she previously described as "often quite cruel" to her daughter.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Anthropic’s October Usage Policy Update included a section prohibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

That message — a howl of righteous anger at state corruption and the perversion of religion to serve the nefarious agendas of cruel, power-mad men — is what makes “The Devils” sacrilegious yet not apostate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield,” the stepfather is cruel to the point of unhinged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Just like Baba once believed in you, said a cruel voice in his mind.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

“But I don’t recall crueler words ever said about me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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

He basically just says it in a way that’s even crueler and more callous than what Barrett says.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025

He reminded me of Apollo, God of the Sun, except the Titans light was harsher, and his expression crueler.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

I just think one of the cruelest things you can do is to coddle your child in a false reality versus helping them figure out the real reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

Almodóvar says it’s the film “where I’ve been cruelest with myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis