harmlessness

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Recent Examples of harmlessness What happens, for example, when harmlessness conflicts with helping the user? Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • What natural wine has changed First of all, natural wine has helped reawaken and shift demand to lighter, fresher wines with more purity, zing, energy and personality as opposed to the once-popular oaky and powerful alcoholic ones.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Storrie asked in an attempt to preserve even an ounce of purity.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In a nutshell, chastity is the practice of orgasm denial, often through a device like a dedicated cage.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 1 Oct. 2025
  • The title that has become attached to the painting over time curiously characterizes the Virgin Mary by the fruit, perhaps in recognition of her chastity, especially when considered in the context of Persephone’s myth.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Harmlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harmlessness. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.

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