erosive

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In addition, increased erosive power associated with capture and basin integration drove accelerated incision during the Late Miocene.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

The U.S. has been hesitant to regulate the social media giants, even as outside groups warn of the rise of hate speech and misinformation that can be erosive to civil society.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Someone needed to take another look at the bipedal tracks at Site A. But those same seasonal rains that gift us fossil bones and footprints also have the erosive power to take them away.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2022

"Having worked with lithium, I can tell you there is nothing safe about it," she noted of the highly caustic and erosive metal.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

Their activity was sometimes erosive, and at such times stratified deposits were not made.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.