bad influence
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Here Bown and Keynes deploy their most memorable analogy: managing a teenager’s relationship with the neighborhood’s bad influence, a character they call “Dangerous Doug.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Collins added that she did not feel proms were a good thing and instead were a bad influence on children.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
The pop-infused corrido, about a bad influence in his love life, is the most streamed música Mexicana song globally, the fourth most popular Latin song and the song most added globally to user-created playlists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
You’re an adult and your desire to wear normal adult clothing and makeup is you being a normal 20-year-old, not you being a bad influence.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023
No matter how hot it got, Mami wouldn’t allow us to cool off in the hydrant with the neighborhood kids, whom she considered a bad influence.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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