benign
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Where there was once an insistence on an impersonal space, there is now an acknowledgment that the therapist does not have to cloak their identity in a benign anonymity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Retail fuel and food costs likely stayed benign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
This request apparently came from the White House counsel, and one has to wonder why it was thinking about the constitutionality of this sort of utterly benign, seemingly noncontroversial statute.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
"The initial shock has so far still been smaller," she said, while adding the backdrop now was more "benign".
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Houses built in the benign spring and early summer took waves in their second- story windows.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" 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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