Example Sentences

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To turn their attention to damages, enough jurors had to essentially agree that one or both accused tech platforms was negligently or harmfully designed and users should have been warned, according to verdict forms.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

But the American Medical Association complained that the COVID-19 drugs could interact harmfully with drugs for other conditions and that physicians, who don’t typically staff pharmacies, are best equipped to prescribe them safely.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2022

But there is a risk that, in cases of high mutation load, elimination of mutated mtDNA could reduce the mtDNA copy number to harmfully low levels.

From Nature • Jul. 7, 2020

Through this character, the show harmfully blurs the distinction postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis—dramatically different conditions.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2019

And it was not what he actually learned, but the evasions encountered, that produced the sensitiveness about his own backgrounds which later often influenced his attitude harmfully at moments when he most needed complete self-assurance.

From The Soul of a Child by Björkman, Edwin