as in benign
not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt
a perfectly harmless little spider
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Recent Examples of harmless
Murmurs can be harmless (known as innocent murmurs).
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Patty Weasler, Rn, Bsn, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2025
Image At first, the inventions seem useful or harmless or — to us, smack in the middle of the timeline — hopelessly obsolete.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2025
What begins as a harmless joke evolves into a chaotic adventure, drawing in a cast of misfit characters, including gangsters and bumbling police officers.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
While some argue that eating an item with the intent to pay for it later is harmless, others point out that this habit often crosses a line.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Patty Weasler, Rn, Bsn, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2025
Image At first, the inventions seem useful or harmless or — to us, smack in the middle of the timeline — hopelessly obsolete.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2025
What begins as a harmless joke evolves into a chaotic adventure, drawing in a cast of misfit characters, including gangsters and bumbling police officers.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
While some argue that eating an item with the intent to pay for it later is harmless, others point out that this habit often crosses a line.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harmless
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According to Healthline, benign easy bruising, called actinic purpura or senile purpura is common.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Yes, Republicans have been getting an earful from their districts, but those skirmishes are going to look perfectly benign compared to what a vindictive Trump could unleash for lawmakers who show too much pluck.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The lander continued to fire its small reaction control system thrusters to fine-tune its descent, heading for a relatively flat, boulder-free stretch of lunar ground that Blue Ghost autonomously selected as a safe landing spot.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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The challenge of keeping hospitals safe Hospitals are particularly challenging to secure because of the way they are set up, Clay said.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2025
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In a race against time, Melissa must figure out if an innocent man is going to die for a crime her father really committed.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2025
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In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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In what initially seemed to be a rather innocuous post on Instagram, Hill called for all his fans to meet him at the Aventura Mall, the location of his Soul Runner store.—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
22 Feb. 2025
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Last week, Judge Carl J. Nichols, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, took the seemingly innocuous step of extending an order temporarily barring the U.S. Agency for International Development from involuntarily evacuating its employees from overseas assignments.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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After opening night, Hart criticizes the show for being inoffensive and having too happy of an ending.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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What to do instead: Make the task itself more pleasant or at least inoffensive.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Below are some of the foods and drinks to avoid before bedtime in order to have a healthier and better sleep experience.—
Khloe Quill,
Fox News,
26 Feb. 2025
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This offers a new tool for medicine and healthy aging interventions and leverages the power of large-scale protein analysis to provide a more accurate measure of an individual's biological age than chronological age.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Harmless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harmless. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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