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Recent Examples of virulent While the politics of health and care do not always map onto war and its metaphors, public health is messy when new and virulent diseases take over a country in bereavement. Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025 In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 Even economic arguments could not overcome the virulent resentment of immigrants. Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025 Regardless of West's clear intent to provoke commentary or the current state of his mental health, this type of virulent anti-Semitism requires clear and immediate condemnation in order to maintain the safety of Jews everywhere. Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for virulent
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Adjective
  • These emails might include malicious links designed to install malware or steal login information.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Time to update: Apple has discovered hackers exploiting an iOS bug via malicious media files.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This was a vicious weaponization of your government.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Shauna may be the vicious Antler Queen now, but Lottie also played a role in Mari’s death.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The cruelest part is that the good ones are mixed with the bad ones.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The antisemitic charge is a slur in its own right, tainting a broad range of institutions with a single hateful brush.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Prater, a graduate student in her first season with the Bulldogs, appeared to disable her comment section on some of her Instagram posts after facing an influx of hateful messages following the devastating injury Watkins suffered in the first half of their second round game.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Switching out a pump in a pit filled with raw sewage is nasty work.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The bear is back and things may stay nasty for the rest of 2025.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Virulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virulent. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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