benign
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“It’s a pretty benign environment and well-protected,” Turtle said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Her efforts led the antivirus software Kaspersky to begin flagging the tools known as stalkerware as a privacy threat to its customers instead of labeling it as benign.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
U.S. stocks were mixed as deadlock in the Middle East offset relatively benign consumer-inflation data and an artificial-intelligence earnings bonanza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The researchers also embedded the nanoreactors in an environmentally benign sodium alginate hydrogel matrix.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
In that day pus was thought to be benign, a proof that a wound was healing properly.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing benign
The Giver
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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