harmless

Example Sentences

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The colourfully lit machines, often seen drawing people like moths to a flame, have come under regulatory scrutiny this month, as officials raised addiction concerns over the seemingly harmless games.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

This does not mean pretending $100-plus oil is harmless.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Neighbours have described a man who was shot dead by police during an armed stand-off as "harmless" and "polite".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Techniques such as “receiver operating characteristic curve analysis” examine how changing the threshold for an alert alters the balance between correctly identifying real events and mistakenly flagging harmless ones.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

They installed me at the marquetry table with some harmless dummy documents to work on—finding the best connections between French rail and bus timetables and making a list of them in German.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein