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as in damaging
to cause bodily damage to
though she wasn't harmed by the flying glass, she slipped and fell on a piece and cut her hand
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as in injuring
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting
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Recent Examples of harming
The goal of the procedure is to remove all of the skin cancer without harming the healthy skin around it.
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Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Jernigan, Houry, and Daskalakis say that Kennedy’s vaccine moves are already harming Americans.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Homicidal ideation involves thinking about or considering harming or killing other people.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
These eating habits may impact your body clock, stress hormones, and nutrient absorption, harming bone health.
—Simon Spichak, Health, 3 Sep. 2025
Many described receiving a telepathic message warning humanity about harming the planet.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Pressure campaigns have even led to traditional media outlets retracting previously positive reviews, further harming book sales and author reputations.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
In the midst of growing concerns about social media harming young people, its platforms offer important benefits for some vulnerable youth.
—Laura Schwab Reese, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
When recovering from relationship conflict, people often make promises to change their behaviors or habits that are harming the relationship.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Jernigan, Houry, and Daskalakis say that Kennedy’s vaccine moves are already harming Americans.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Homicidal ideation involves thinking about or considering harming or killing other people.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
These eating habits may impact your body clock, stress hormones, and nutrient absorption, harming bone health.
—Simon Spichak, Health, 3 Sep. 2025
Many described receiving a telepathic message warning humanity about harming the planet.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Pressure campaigns have even led to traditional media outlets retracting previously positive reviews, further harming book sales and author reputations.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
In the midst of growing concerns about social media harming young people, its platforms offer important benefits for some vulnerable youth.
—Laura Schwab Reese, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
When recovering from relationship conflict, people often make promises to change their behaviors or habits that are harming the relationship.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harming
Verb
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Avoid using excessive water to prevent damaging the floors.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Last week, a 23-year-old opened fire outside a church at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 19 other people before dying by suicide.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Parollee Dawain Hopson lived a free life for about five weeks before landing back behind bars, this time for allegedly stabbing two people to death at a Detroit pool party over the summer and injuring two others with the same knife.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Kraft-Heinz, like all big food companies, is grappling with inflation-weary buyers cutting back spending or switching to generic labels and the rise of GLP-1 drugs hurting demand for snack food.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Ballet flats are a stylish way to look sophisticated without hurting your feet in the process.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Boston comes in with three straight losses marring otherwise agreeable vibes.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The man, identified as Cash, opened fire, wounding the man.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Russia launched a large-scale attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 15 people, wounding 48 others and damaging buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This comes from a tight satin weave that leaves a shiny look without compromising a smooth hand feel.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
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Aligning investment portfolios with human dignity is broad and flexible enough to apply to the entire portfolio across market conditions without increasing portfolio concentration or other investment risk or compromising returns.—
Bhakti Mirchandani,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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That underscored rising concerns of weakening in the labor market, a trend that has shown up in anecdotal evidence for several months.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Harming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harming. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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