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Recent Examples of nonhazardous
New constraints on the plastic waste trade In 2021, Indonesia restricted the import of nonhazardous waste to 15 specific ports and in 2025 banned the import of plastic waste altogether.
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Ellen M. Considine,
The Conversation,
2 June 2026
Officials said two cars were leaking ethanol and one car was leaking nonhazardous corn syrup.
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Ralph Green,
Houston Chronicle,
18 Mar. 2026
The material spilled is nonhazardous food waste, said spokesperson Pam Witmer, not sewage.
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Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Jan. 2026
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Ellen M. Considine,
The Conversation,
2 June 2026
Officials said two cars were leaking ethanol and one car was leaking nonhazardous corn syrup.
—
Ralph Green,
Houston Chronicle,
18 Mar. 2026
The material spilled is nonhazardous food waste, said spokesperson Pam Witmer, not sewage.
—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhazardous
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From the risk of leaks and water damage to potential electrical issues, a seemingly harmless load of laundry can occasionally turn into an expensive problem.
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Even moderate drinking carries risk and is not as harmless as people, including experts, once thought.
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Air conditioning will be keeping millions of Americans safe and comfortable over the holiday weekend as a heat dome brings dangerous conditions to millions.
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Los Robles officials said that staff, patients and visitors were safe and that medical care was not interrupted at the hospital.
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Udara finally fell to a relatively innocuous delivery from Alzarri Joseph in the over before the arrival of the second new ball.
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Slow-motion replays and still images distort the offending player’s actions, with innocuous tackles looking more serious.
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Instead of the industrial look favored by many rival robots, NEO is notable for its aggressively nonthreatening appearance.
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Here, grizzlies don’t equate people with food—as opposed to populated areas where alluring smells forge a connection—and have learned to tolerate humans, thanks to decades of naturalists adopting nonthreatening practices.
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All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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That law predates the much wider United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which took effect in 1994, giving ships the right of innocent passage through any country's territorial waters without paying a fee.
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Türkiye, in Australia’s first match, had been sluggish and unthreatening.
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Lack of efforts to provide corrective knowledge about the unthreatening reality of TMI and the unique Soviet circumstances of the Chernobyl accident encouraged widespread belief that nuclear represented an essentialist threat to public safety.
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Human minds would have to ensure that that bounty got distributed in socially beneficial ways.
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Syn explains that the starter is created by combining flour and water, allowing naturally occurring wild yeast and beneficial bacteria to grow over time.
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“Nonhazardous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhazardous. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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