harmless

Example Sentences

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This does not mean pretending $100-plus oil is harmless.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

His wife added: "He was harmless, you know? We didn't see him an awful lot of the time because he lived on his own, but like you say, he'd always wave."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Techniques such as “receiver operating characteristic curve analysis” examine how changing the threshold for an alert alters the balance between correctly identifying real events and mistakenly flagging harmless ones.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Young, urban professionals—known for their college degrees, willingness to work late and such harmless eccentricities as paying large markups for “local” produce—do not ordinarily instill terror.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“Like I said before, what we did was just harmless fun.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros