innocuous

Example Sentences

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"I was 21, I'd grown up isolated from the real world and surrounded by privileges, and I believed that word was like saying 'Yankee'. Innocuous."

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2023

It gives concrete meaning, at a much wider scale, to years of privacy concerns: Innocuous personal data it holds is now evidence.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022

Let me introduce the harm-based dyadic loop, described in a 2016 paper by Chelsea Schein and Kurt Gray, "Moralization and Harmification: The Dyadic Loop Explains How the Innocuous Becomes Harmful and Wrong."

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2018

Innocuous tree moss lifted the curtain, squarely putting higher levels of carcinogens in some Portlanders’ backyards: Arsenic was detected in Gov. Kate Brown’s Portland neighborhood.

From Washington Times • Feb. 12, 2016

Innocuous as it seemed, it was part of a procedure which had become refined almost to an unvarying ritual—a ritual of beautiful and terrible precision which never failed to achieve its goals.

From Oneness by Summers, Leo