Example Sentences

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"We're all familiar with the Freudian idea that if we suppress our feelings or thoughts, then these thoughts remain in our unconscious, influencing our behaviour and wellbeing perniciously," said Professor Michael Anderson.

From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023

Coronavirus cases are nearing record levels in West Virginia, and the state’s schools are closing and its hospitals are choked with patients stricken by the perniciously infectious Delta variant.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021

They are looking for signs of a perniciously quiet kind of infiltration.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2020

Yet the large number of people who watched it suggests misinformation spreads perniciously.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2020

The success of the bonanza farm, has proved perniciously infectious.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.