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[hahrm] / hɑrm /




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However, it must make efforts to limit pollution to the environment and harm to humans.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Such rules would have made it easier to hold AI providers accountable for harm caused by their tools.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Mr. Russell agreed: “I think nothing in the Constitution would prevent that,” adding “when lots of people act together to cause widespread harm, it is not uncommon for multiple different defendants to be potentially liable.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Basically, the idea that polluters have caused too much harm to have to pay for all of it is more of a personal problem than a legal one.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

But I got to the property line without harm or hollering, and by the time I crossed it, I did feel better.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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

The practice of indiscriminately removing interior branches to “reduce density” stresses trees, harms tree health and can make them less safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Jain said there was now more agreement in AI circles that "actual near-term harms" needed to be better understood.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Very well, then, Stephen, what harms humanity? Economic dislocations most of all, from whatever cause. Wouldn’t you say so?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

But only 35 percent considered it benefited Venezuela, compared to 28 percent who said it harmed the Caribbean country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hull City said the club was "aware of images circulating on social media following a road traffic accident near the training ground and can confirm that no one was harmed in the incident".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Authorities responded immediately and nobody was harmed, according to a statement from the Estonian government.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

He left it behind to found the first U.S. law firm devoted exclusively to representing people who claimed they were harmed by gender-transition treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The worst thing Ah ever knowed her to do was taking a few years offa her age and dat ain’t never harmed nobody.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

But whether these managers believed Letby was harming babies or not was "irrelevant", Thirlwall said, adding that action should have been taken as soon as concerns were raised.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

This year more than a half-million acres have burned there, forcing school closures and harming air quality as far away as Singapore and the Philippines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

But stopping industries from harming the rest of us seems like a task for the government.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Besides this, one cannot honestly satisfy the nobles without harming others, but the common people can certainly be satisfied.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli




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