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benign

adjective as in mild, especially describing weather

adjective as in not cancerous

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Out in the benign but swollen landscape, so placid now but so full of potential unrest, unspeakable things have happened.

His secondary stuff was electric, a mix of sliders and sweepers and curveballs and splitters that kept the Phillies off balance and able to make only benign contact.

The engagement comes just months after the TV presenter revealed her benign brain tumour was "not coming back".

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Emma said her brother also has a distinctive curved scar on the side of his head close to one of his eyes after an operation to remove a benign brain tumour when he was younger.

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“None of those men could ever imagine someone of Silcott’s race or color wielding that kind of power, despite the phony smiles and benign language used,” Mitchell said in his eulogy at Howard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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