benign
Example Sentences
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However, global credit will begin the year with a generally benign outlook, according to the agency, adding that it expects the credit resilience seen this year to continue.
While many of the questions were benign, including several from children, from a one reporter from Yakutia in north-eastern Siberia highlighted a tenfold increase in energy prices in the past four years.
From BBC
Those investments helped build some of China’s most important semiconductor, AI and hardware companies at a time when Washington viewed technological engagement as benign.
Equity markets, it appears, have stopped rewarding companies making job cuts, even if their stated justifications are benign, and are punishing share prices regardless.
From MarketWatch
A modest slowdown in job gains and/or an uptick in the unemployment rate, coupled with more benign data about inflation, could be the dream scenario for cyclical stocks.
From Barron's
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