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harm

[hahrm] / hɑrm /




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She called on Raman to retract her remarks and issue an apology, saying Gates “inflicted serious harm to the African American community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

A 2024 research review in the journal Healthcare found that those with limited proficiency in English are more likely to experience serious harm from medical errors and receive lower-quality healthcare.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

But a major incident that causes widespread economic or human harm could swamp a company’s financial buffers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

BBC Verify also found nearly 40 IDF investigations into incidents of harm in Lebanon.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In order to do harm, a radioactive isotope must be in or on the body when it decays.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Its lawsuit therefore takes a position not merely on local environmental harms, but on how responsibility for an international problem should be allocated among American companies, foreign companies and foreign nations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"It is more generally about psychological harms and child safety," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Those figures have influenced international discussions about both the benefits and possible harms of population-based breast cancer screening.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

It means holding developers accountable for preventable harms while preserving their ability to innovate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“If something brings us mutual pleasure and harms no one, it’s a virtue.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Luckily, no dishes were harmed in the process.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

At his East London clinic, Stephen Hibbs—who treated the Albanian patient—found many of his colleagues had similar difficult stories of patients being harmed by language barriers.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Europe's own interests -- its interests regarding production, investment, employment, and exports -- should not be harmed. Turkey's interests should not be harmed either," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

But that drew sharp ire from Jakarta, which said the move harmed bilateral ties.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

"What if it's for your own convenience but no one will be harmed?"

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

A major new lawsuit argues the state is taking far too much water out of the Delta, harming native fish and the ecosystem, causing toxic algae blooms, and threatening local farms and communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The excess immune cells can then die through apoptosis, a controlled form of programmed cell death that allows the body to remove unneeded, damaged or cancerous cells without causing inflammation or harming nearby tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Chambers, along with director of nursing and head of safeguarding Alison Kelly and medical director Ian Harvey, "dismissed the idea that Letby was deliberately harming babies", Thirlwall added.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

At the behest of local vegetable growers and processors, the Liberal government asked the trade tribunal this year to investigate whether imports of foreign canned vegetables were harming Canada’s food sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

They promise villagers that the Japanese Army has no intention of harming them as long as they follow the rules.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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