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What happens, for example, when harmlessness conflicts with helping the user?—
Meghan O’Gieblyn,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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This high-purity gas serves as a direct, climate-friendly replacement for fossil fuels, capable of heating homes, generating electricity, and powering transportation using existing infrastructure.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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The town also has a pied piper of the purity police (Ana Gasteyer, in peak form) and a light-in-his-loafers mayor (Brad Oscar), who has a conveniently daft wife (Ann Harada, reprising her role from the series).—
Naveen Kumar,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
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Over the course of 10 years of activism, Maryam Shojaei has been arrested by Iran’s morality police, helped change FIFA policy, and watched her brother, Masoud, captain Iran’s national team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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Days ago, Vice President JD Vance urged the pope to stick to matters of morality.—
Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Inoffensiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoffensiveness. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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