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Recent Examples of unmalicious
His staging is, more subtly and powerfully, a sad, unsettling suggestion of our unmalicious but all-too-willing forgetfulness.
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New York Times, 8 July 2022
New York Times, 8 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmalicious
Adjective
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Parents have already suffered through too many fake treatments that have been, at best, expensive but benign, and at worst, horrifyingly harmful.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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One of the more benign but notable side effects is that, ironically, taking supplemental iron interferes with the absorption of iron from food.—
Kristine Thomason,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In a loving and encouraging environment, each parent acts as an equal protective factor against anxious patterns and symptoms.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
23 Sep. 2025
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Fast forward several months, and most have found loving homes.—
TJ Macias,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jesus and Belania shriek and thank Christian, who stands there looking like a benevolent fashion angel bestowing them with good luck.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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To achieve excellence in AI, nations need the compute, but also chip production, AI talent, workforce and corporate adoption, benevolent government regulation, and a thriving ecosystem of AI startups.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The sympathetic system is responsible for the fight-or-flight response, while the parasympathetic system activates the body’s rest-and-digest mode.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
25 Sep. 2025
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In that movie Beatty cast himself as a politically naïve newsman who became sympathetic to the Bolshevik (later Communist) cause.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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On a late-September Friday night as warm as July, the Boston Red Sox kicked down the doors of October baseball for the first time since 2021, with a walk-off that will not be forgotten any time soon.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Set against a beige background, the blanket’s pattern features a warm yellow, sweet violet, and soft green.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The 31-year-old activist's murder shocked the nation, and it was condemned by sensible and compassionate people in and out of politics and across the political spectrum.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Sep. 2025
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Malcolm is absolutely a kinder, more compassionate man than his father.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Our focus remains on creating safe, healthy, and kind schools that engage all students to embrace the power of learning.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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The reception in Telluride was kinder, positioning the film’s NYFF premiere to be the tiebreaker.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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There’s no Nurse Ratched here, however, but there is the kindly Steve, who watches out for all of them, especially Shy, who is hiding a secret from the others.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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To that end, BALLS imagines a reality where the kindly Professor NPC who offers you a choice of three starter monsters is actually the one who created both the technology and normalized culture of trapping living things in spherical prisons.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Unmalicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmalicious. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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