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benign
adjective as in kindly
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adjective as in mild, especially describing weather
adjective as in advantageous
adjective as in not cancerous
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Example Sentences
The TV presenter posted a video on Instagram to say she had been diagnosed with a rare type of benign tumour called a colloid cyst.
Even a seemingly benign downgrade — from “honorable” to “general discharge under honorable conditions” — makes a difference.
By bonding, the medicine transforms the reactive metals into benign molecules that have little interest in interacting with different compounds in the body.
A second Trump term wouldn’t be a benign rerun of the first version.
The benign tumour, dubbed a “breakdance bulge”, was more than an inch thick, according to a report published by the British Medical Journal.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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