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How to use the word benign in a Sentence?

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This is a long story. My son was in a boat wreck … months back. He’s been getting threats, most of it’s been benign stuff. We didn’t take serious, you know, he’s been getting like punched. Um, I, I know that’s what it is.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hypnic jerks, on the other hand, are benign phenomena that are n’t tied to any health conditions or concerns.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The superpower of people with dominant Fixer Imposters is that they are tirelessly solution-oriented and helpful, particularly when the going gets rough. People with dominant Fixer Imposters can also be master worriers. They see adversity and disaster around every corner, even in benign situations.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

As soon as you start looking into it, people are saying, ‘Wait, we don’t really like this.' It's not a benign issue, all the polls are saying, ‘No, we don’t really think we need this. We don't think it will help us.'.

Dana Perino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Federal Reserve continues to support, Biden has this huge stimulus programme as well and the earnings season continues -- so far we have seen relatively benign as well as strong earnings.

Eddie Cheng

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare.

Andy Duncan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're starting to see infections that are emerging from what otherwise seem like benign settings.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We used to think of hot flashes as transient and benign, but we're finding out now that they're neither.

Stephanie Faubion

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Women who are having a rough time during menopause with lots of hot flashes need to say,' You know what -- could this be a little more than just a nuisance ?' we used to think of hot flashes as transient and benign, but we're finding out now that they're neither.

Stephanie Faubion

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even Hong Kong -RSB- lawyers are unable to provide clear advice or guidelines on what would amount to an offense — the provisions are so broadly crafted that Hong Kong lawyers are capable of capturing even benign conduct such as slogans, censorship is coming.

Sharron Fast

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Most of the patients were young, healthy and had a benign clinical course, i dont want people to think if they are having purple spots on their toes that they are going to end up on a ventilator in the ICU. That is not what we are seeing in the data.

Esther Freeman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Obviously, a breakthrough on reforms makes the inflation scenario in the future more benign, the prevailing factor (in the risks to inflation) is reforms. Progress on reform is improvement in this sense.

Campos Neto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If the Fed policy is benign and you don't see an acceleration of earnings, (REIT) dividend yields and a steady cash flow are pretty attractive to investors.

Bob Zenouzi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Where are they? It would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy was benign, but it's not, their indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity, time, one thing they're running out of.

Jon Stewart

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

And I was like, stage 4 ? I have been getting tested for a mass but it was benign, so, I am like could it be cancer ? I was told it is mass with no purpose. So to find out, and pancreatic cancer is undetected until it's in the fourth or fifth stage.

Bushwick Bill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

China and the U.S. are two superpowers, and North Korea has a reason to stand up to both in different ways, russia is a country whose attractiveness to North Korea lies precisely in it not having major leverage. Russia has this potential of being seen as a relatively benign actor by the North Koreans.

Dmitri Trenin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Katelyn McClure has been strong. Katelyn McClure's devastated by this and has been, but Both McClure and Bobbitt look to the sentencings in federal and state courts and hopefully Both McClure and Bobbitt can find sufficient evidence to convince both judges of Katelyn McClure role and the fact that throughout this Katelyn McClure started out with benign motive, Katelyn McClure hope to help Johnny Bobbitt and not to enrich Katelyn McClure or anyone else.

Jim Gerrow

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Both McClure and Bobbitt've indicated throughout it's my view that Mr. D'Amico is the real agent provocateur in this matter. Kate's role from the beginning was to help Mr. Johnny Bobbitt, katelyn McClure has been strong. Katelyn McClure's devastated by this and has been, but Both McClure and Bobbitt look to the sentencings in federal and state courts and hopefully Both McClure and Bobbitt can find sufficient evidence to convince both judges of Katelyn McClure role and the fact that throughout this Katelyn McClure started out with benign motive, Katelyn McClure hope to help Johnny Bobbitt and not to enrich Katelyn McClure or anyone else.

Jim Gerrow

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I thought sooner or later something was going to happen. I'm just happy it's benign.

Laurence Leamer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'd also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the president, it's true that we spoke on the phone, but those communications are political in nature, they're benign, and there is certainly no conspiracy with Russia.

Roger Stone

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

My God turns evil to good, because of this, I got a CT scan in my head to make sure he didn’t do any real damage. Because of that, they found a small, benign tumor that will get treated at an early stage.

David Miller

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's the most common benign tumor that's out there. It is a tumor, which means it's a growth. There's no worry for it to spread or metastasize. Once it's treated, it's treated.

Keith Kowalczyk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The key question for 2018 remains to what extent can the benign environment persist?

Jacob Mitchell

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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