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benign

[bih-nahyn] / bɪˈnaɪn /






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The 76 year-old Israeli leader said he underwent the initial surgery for an enlarged benign prostate in 2024 and has been under routine medical monitoring.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Credit conditions appear generally benign across this week’s earnings reports.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

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

Their movement then sends false signals to the brain that the head is spinning, causing the sudden dizziness and spinning sensation, sometimes accompanied by nausea, known as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It seemed like the most benign of tragedies that she didn’t like the chocolate ice cream nearly as much as she had the vanilla.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland




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