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Recent Examples of harmful Most of the time, these changes are harmful to the virus or have no effect. Brenda Goodman, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025 In some cases, taking high amounts of antioxidant supplements can even be harmful to your health. Jennifer Lefton, Ms, Rd/n, Cnsc, Fand, Verywell Health, 7 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, the European Union has been investigating X for potential violations of the Digital Services Act, a law that requires social media firms to tackle the spread of harmful content on their platforms. Ryan Browne, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025 Avocado oil reduces unstable harmful molecules (free radicals) in rodent brains and increases the presence of antioxidant molecules.1 6. Amy Brownstein, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for harmful 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harmful
Adjective
  • Tariffs are particularly detrimental to industries with complex supply chains, where goods cross the border multiple times as firms seek to turn inputs into final goods.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The bench has struggled at times which could be detrimental come playoff but.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But the idea of an inalienable Palestinian right to nation-state status is wobbly at best, and may be damaging to all sides.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Burney adds that this plant can be potentially damaging to the heart.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This amount can weigh down trees and power lines — causing power outages — and make travel dangerous to borderline impossible.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • This feeds into Newcastle’s 2-0 advantage which, as another cliche tells us, is the most dangerous lead in football.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The unions argue that the offer fails to consider possible adverse consequences to the government's ability to function; sets an arbitrarily short deadline; and is pretext for removing and replacing workers on an ideological basis, among other things.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The study said adverse side effects and cost were the most common reasons patients stopped the drugs that were documented in clinical notes.
    Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Ernie Tedeschi: There seems to be this sense in the White House that trade surpluses are good, and trade deficits are bad.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Since its release last week, fans across Reddit, X, YouTube, and even the game’s official site all agree: Trading in Pocket is very, very bad.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2025

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“Harmful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harmful. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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