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Discover Ludwig"toxic legacy" is a perfectly valid phrase used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something (usually a situation or institution) that has had negative, long-lasting effects on a person or place. For example, "The decades of environmental pollution have left behind a toxic legacy for future generations."
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But a toxic legacy remains.
That is Rupert Murdoch's toxic legacy.
"But we do know it has left a toxic legacy.
Obama has inherited a toxic legacy; Congress, at least, could ease his burden.
Still, the toxic legacy is as real now as it was decades ago.
The poised story, set in northern India, of disparate characters united by the toxic legacy of colonialism.
It also had to deal with the toxic legacy of the Blair government's ill-advised interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There is a toxic legacy working its way through the food chain – a chain that ends with the otter.
Major mining projects not only require large clearings in the forest, they also leave a toxic legacy of pollution.
And in Germany, the war left a toxic legacy of resentment that Hitler would brilliantly manipulate to win power.
(Atlantic Monthly, $24). The poised story, set in northern India, of disparate characters united by the toxic legacy of colonialism.
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