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Recent Examples of malignancy For children who received a head CT, the researchers attributed about a quarter of their hematologic malignancies that followed to the radiation exposure. Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 Epstein Barr virus, Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus and Human Papilloma Virus are all associated with actually causing malignancy in humans. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2025 However, for anyone who has observed Trump’s public life, his malignancy and malevolence have always been obvious. Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025 Nearly 2 million Americans are diagnosed with malignancies every year. Rachana Pradhan, CNN Money, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for malignancy
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Noun
  • Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This was all in jest though and while many would object to making homophobia a joke, there didn’t appear to be actual malice behind it, at least from a superficial look.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their venom is typically used to paralyze their prey, but is not thought to have an effect on the human nervous system.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What’s more, elapids are capable of producing particularly large quantities of venom and are often very large.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • My darling, hatred takes the beauty away.
    Tracee Ellis Ross, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Muschietti touched on this in his movies — the bullying of Mike Hanlon and the hate-crime murder of Adrian Mellon — including the way Pennywise fosters and foments the hatred already lurking in the hearts of Derry’s citizens.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Being tied to the mast of a regime defined by cruelty and graft is a problem of another magnitude entirely.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • After shifting power to the people—like a year-plus bus boycott can do, for example—and getting the government to lessen its corruption, cruelty, injustice or violence, defending those gains is a must.
    Michael Shank, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Malignancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malignancy. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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