innocuous
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Innocuous as using the term “mother” to describe an actress may ultimately be, it has been proliferated in such an extreme and exaggerated way that the expression has sprinted past “bop” in terms of misuse.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
"I was 21, I'd grown up isolated from the real world and surrounded by privileges, and I believed that word was like saying 'Yankee'. Innocuous."
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2023
It gives concrete meaning, at a much wider scale, to years of privacy concerns: Innocuous personal data it holds is now evidence.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022
Innocuous tree moss lifted the curtain, squarely putting higher levels of carcinogens in some Portlanders’ backyards: Arsenic was detected in Gov. Kate Brown’s Portland neighborhood.
From Washington Times • Feb. 12, 2016
Innocuous as it seemed, it was part of a procedure which had become refined almost to an unvarying ritual—a ritual of beautiful and terrible precision which never failed to achieve its goals.
From Oneness by Summers, Leo
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