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Six example sentences with benign, each labelled with its topic.
The biopsy came back benign, so the surgeon scheduled nothing beyond a routine check the following spring.
Medicine
The scanner flagged the file, but the code turned out to be benign, a logging routine written years ago.
Technology
A benign explanation usually fits a late reply better than the hostile one the anxious reader immediately supplies.
Psychology
The introduced beetle proved benign, feeding only on the invasive vine and ignoring every native plant in the trial plots.
Environment
Analysts called the rate rise benign, since borrowers had already priced it in and the markets barely moved.
Finance
The novel's headmaster is a benign figure, forgetful and kindly, who never notices the students climbing out the windows.
Literature
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