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295 examples of Benign in a sentence

Fortunately, her lump proved to be benign.
"The tumor in your leg is not consistent with a benign tumor."
And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy.
This woman is slowly dying because the benign tumors in her facial bones have completely obliterated her mouth and her nose so she can't breathe and eat.
Here's a classic example: Rebecca has a benign blood vessel tumor that's growing out through her skull, has obliterated her nose, and she's having difficulty seeing.
So we have to keep plugging away, trying to correct the misapprehensions so that only the benign and useful variants of our ideas continue to spread.
That will encourage the spread of relatively benign mutations of the most toxic varieties.
Well, I'm going to say I don't think that's either as benign nor as simple as it sounds, particularly for those of us in industries who are portraying people in poor countries, in developing countries and portraying the poor.
It all sort of started as a benign mistake, like penicillin.
What seems like a benign moment at the post office is actually an anger grenade.
And at first that sounds very nice, very benign, well-intended.
If you've never been restrained yourself, you may have a benign image of the experience.
There's nothing benign about it.
Most people imagine orphanages as a benign environment that care for children.
That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life but for the careers and the families and the futures of twentysomethings everywhere.
I'm not suggesting that obesity is benign, but what I am suggesting is it may be the lesser of two metabolic evils.
One of the things I'm pointing out is that cartoons appear within the context of The New Yorker magazine, that lovely Caslon type, and it seems like a fairly benign cartoon within this context.
There's a concept about humor about it being a benign violation.
And so, this benign, that's true of "No, Thursday's out.
Please help" is a benign violation.
Suddenly the voice didn't seem quite so benign anymore, and when she insisted that I seek medical attention, I duly complied, and which proved to be mistake number two.
So the most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone.
But it's not benign, because there's so much of it.
I try to think of how something as benign and innocuous as a picture of a cat could lead to death, and what to do to prevent that.
People don't realize that red light and benign near-infrared light go right through your hand, just like this.
Second, and this one is specific to the organs from the pig, every pig carries a virus that is benign to the pig, but can be transmitted into humans.
It's named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky.
And the only question is, are we malignant or benign?
You know, a malignant tumor you extract altogether, and a benign tumor you just keep under surveillance.
Or a 16-year-old girl who built an algorithm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant in the off chance that she can save her daddy's life because he has cancer.
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