as in damages
something that causes loss or pain
you were lucky to survive the fire without harm no harm in trying
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as in injures
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 hurts
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 harms
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The brief argues that the commission failed to consider significant, concrete harms to local industry and communities.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 5 Jan. 2026
But in the absence of meaningful congressional action, states must step up to confront real and documented harms.
—Bob Morgan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
On a scramble Sunday, Purdy kept that right foot upright and out of harms way as he was being tackled.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
Medical research is the reason their harms are well known.
—Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
Even manufacturers of everyday items such as lawnmowers or toasters could hire experts and proclaim that their products pose no safety harms.
—Alan K. Chen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
And the answer to the various risks and harms of AI is public control of AI objectives through democratic means.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Think of the harms of erratic schedules akin to the way dripping water can erode stone.
—Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2026
But bullying is a next-level threat that harms children on both sides of the conflict, with short term as well as long term consequences.
—Dr. Mahvash Madni, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
This harms the economy and families.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
These cases argue that platform design harms student mental health and disrupts learning environments.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
That harms many students and is a disaster for children with dyslexia.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
This lack of accountability stresses the system and harms patients.
—Emily Boss, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Etienne warned that uncertainty around TPS destabilizes the healthcare workforce and harms patients who rely on continuity of care.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
Singling us out as victims of multiracialism alienates us from our fellow-South Africans and harms relationships that have been fostered over the past 30 years.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
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OpenAI has also announced plans to hire a new Head of Preparedness, a role focused on identifying potential harms tied to its AI models and strengthening safeguards around issues ranging from mental health to cybersecurity as those systems grow more capable.
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Perchlorate particularly harms infants and children by damaging thyroid function and lowering IQ, with contamination concentrated in the Southwest and East Coast.
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In 2025, 23 weather and climate events exceeded $1 billion in damages, costing a total of around $115 billion, according to an analysis released Thursday by the nonprofit organization Climate Central.—
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The United States experienced nearly two dozen billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, causing at least 276 fatalities and costing a total of $115 billion in damages.—
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California law already criminalizes unsafe gun storage in certain situations, including when a child accesses a firearm and injures or kills someone.—
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In self-defense, Franck's group injures one of the attackers.—
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In seismic papers, Borjas’s research described the drawbacks of immigration, including his oft-cited, though much-disputed, findings that the arrival of lower-skilled immigrants hurts American workers who compete for jobs, especially poor people and African Americans.—
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That one still hurts a little bit.—
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Liability coverage pays for injuries or property damage you, the driver, cause to others during an accident.—
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The agent, who suffered injuries to his arm and hand, fired his Taser at the man during the encounter, records show.—
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What once killed campaigns now barely wounds them.—
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Even with all of them in place, Shirley misses the masked attacker sneaking his way up to the apartment door, and Lamb’s attempt to blind him with bleach creates a chaotic struggle that wounds the assailant without containing him.—
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Deadly holiday weekend mars broad crime drop The back-and-forth followed a Labor Day weekend of deadly violence in Chicago worse than in the previous two years, with seven people shot to death, according to preliminary Chicago Police Department reports.—
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Valuing a project at cost of production rather than value in an arm’s length sale—common in all economic statistics—especially mars Chinese data.—
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An overreliance on tools weakens our civilization (and saps the film’s dramatic thrills).—
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Ignoring this reality weakens any serious climate plan.—
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These pressures could produce a tsunami that fractures the state’s fiscal foundation, self-inflicts a crisis ultimately demanding drastic cuts, and cripples its competitiveness.—
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Scarface and friends attack the lab, and break out the kryptonite that cripples El and Kali.—
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“Harms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harms. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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