harmful
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Beijing on Monday also outlined broad countermeasures against foreign entities it deems harmful to Chinese interests or disruptive to Chinese investment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Many regulations are essential guardrails of safety: minimizing the risk of financial crises, ensuring that our food isn’t harmful, protecting us from airplanes that malfunction, and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
This finding suggests that the earliest blood cells may have resembled macrophages, which are immune cells that engulf harmful microbes and cellular debris.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Its aim was to reduce the most harmful air pollutants - nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
The many wild species not represented among the 157 selected are ones that would have been useless or harmful to people, including all of the most toxic weed species in the environment.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Unfavorable
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