benign
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“If your focus is on the thing you want, then it’s more benign and more motivating if you recognize that,” Kim says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Irritable bowel syndrome, depression, hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia were also listed as health conditions Haskins battled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Their analysis doesn’t extend to this year’s war with Iran, but Känzig said in an interview he expected its effects to be more benign or even positive compared with pre-2010 shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"And I never get involved in one camp or the other, except as a benign figure I hope."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing benign
The Giver
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