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For the next couple of months, Ben Mathis-Lilley will be authoring the newsletter, and he loves receiving unconstructive criticism in the form of email.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2025

Some countries, especially the one you mentioned, had an unconstructive role regarding the recent developments in Iran.

From Reuters • Dec. 26, 2022

As intolerance of uncertainty has begun to be studied as a separate trait from a tendency to worry, psychologists have identified typical behaviors—often unconstructive ones—that people use to tamp down their distress at not knowing.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022

Asked about the comment on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in Beijing that China hopes “the certain individual from India can avoid making such unconstructive comments.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2022

Armageddon engendered Versailles; earth’s worst war closed with an unconstructive peace which left old sores unhealed and even dealt fresh wounds.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop