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  • adjective Not harmful.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ harmful

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Examples

  • He oversaw dispersion tests of a nonharmful version in the New York City subway system in 1966.

    Bioweapons Pioneer in the Cold War Era Stephen Miller 2010

  • This can sometimes be misleading, because the nonharmful forms of arsenic in fish and shellfish can give a high reading even if you have not been exposed to a toxic form of arsenic.

    Health effects of arsenic 2009

  • The act Reubens is accused of performing during the heterosexually oriented triple feature of "Tiger Shark," "Turn Up the Heat" and "Nancy Nurse" is defined, in a 1984 report of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, as "a natural and nonharmful behavior for individuals of all ages and both sexes."

    'His Career Is Over' 2008

  • Crimes that don't harm, because their consequences don't make anyone worse off than they would otherwise be, such as the murder of someone whose life is not worth living or nonharmful fraud

    Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

  • Q: Even if associations are nonharmful or beneficial, it involves risk.

    Works in progress: Mark McKenna Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • Despite this, Dronenberg argued that the cumulative effect of important recent Supreme Court decisions was to establish a fundamental constitutional right to engage in any manner of consensual, nonharmful sexual practice.

    'The Bork Nomination': An Exchange Smith, M.B.E. 1987

  • As for broadband service delivered over wires, providers to homes or offices will be prohibited from blocking lawful content, applications, services and the connection of nonharmful devices to the network.

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WYATT 2010

  • As for broadband service delivered over wires, providers to homes or offices will be prohibited from blocking lawful content, applications, services and the connection of nonharmful devices to the network.

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD WYATT 2010

  • Wired broadband providers will be "prohibited from blocking lawful content, applications, services and the connection of nonharmful devices to the network," and they will be subject to transparency requirements as to how their networks are managed.

    CNET News.com 2010

  • A vanguard of holistic veterinarians, and James A Peden, author of VEGETARIAN CATS AND DOGS, which is in its third printing, are working to help petowners transition their cats to nonharmful foods, ones which do not cause urethra blockages, feline leukemia, kidney dysfunction, crippling arthritis, lung infections and breathing problems or food poisoning.

    unknown title 2009

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