mild
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My friend Tamia Boyd said she didn’t know that mild tartar buildup on the teeth of her 11-year-old Maltese-Yorkie-poodle mix, Piper, counted as a pre-existing condition.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The judge said he was "satisfied that she was suffering from mild to moderate depression. Probably more to the moderate range".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
I would have put on music and embraced the mild chaos of learning a new technique.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The material is then treated with a mild solvent, which interacts with those fragments and causes the polymer to swell.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The doctors said it was chronic hypothermia, with bad diet and a mild case of pneumonia on top of it; but I don’t know if that accounts for all the hallucinations and mental confusion.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
What Mr. El-Sayed actually said, on the day of his primary victory, was milder: “You are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable for what you’ve done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Over in San Francisco, which faced down a severe heat wave in March, Google Weather users were left flummoxed by the charts of low-70s temps, way milder than the 90-degree record felt by downtown residents.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The milder Scottish climate may now be part of the attraction too.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The mountain also saw a "big upsurge" in heather beetles this year - possibly linked to milder winters.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
A line had gone down in the last snowstorm, and the repairmen were going to take advantage of the milder evenings to set it right.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The school with the cleanest record got the mildest outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
At its mildest, an aircraft may only experience slight erratic changes in altitude, but at the severe end, turbulence can cause large abrupt changes in altitude and angle of the plane.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
Leasure called himself “the nicest, quietest, mildest guy you’ll ever want to meet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
"It looks like it was by quite a long way the mildest recession," said Mr Bailey.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
A dilemma at its mildest will disorder half its relays; and at its worst it will burn out every positronic brain path past repair.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
