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• We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.From the entry biopsy
• We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship.From the entry blow
• Almost any antigen, no matter how benign under most conditions, can have immunopotential effects at least in rare circumstances or hosts.From the entry immunopotential
• Some are quite benign to races other than their own; some aren't.2009 February 16, Bent Attorney Esq., “"Cramer" mourns Hitler's defeat”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 24 Mar 2022. From the entry NatSoc
• In short, Smith understood that the invisible hand is often benign, but not always.2008 May 25, Robert H. Frank, “The Invisible Hand Is Shaking”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Aug 2008. From the entry invisible hand
• Most religious communities' central problem is not teen rebellion but teenagers' benign “whateverism.”2005, Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, →DOI, →ISBN. From the entry whateverism
• Benign Raeder's syndrome is probably a manifestation of carotid artery disease.2005, Roger A. Barker, The A-Z of Neurological Practice: A Guide to Clinical Neurology, →ISBN. From the entry Raeder's syndrome
• Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?1999 March 26, G Greenway, “Re: aah-cho!!”, in alt.gothic (Usenet). From the entry snitch
• Having uttered these benign assurances, Mr Burner III became a brick wall.1997, Edward R.F. Sheeran, Cardinal Galsworthy, page 182. From the entry brick wall
• Microscopically, there are cartilaginous cells with increased cellularity and pleomorphism in comparison to benign tumors.1994, Stanley Hoppenfeld, Michael S. Zeide, “Chondrosarcoma”, in Orthopaedic Dictionary, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry cellularity
• Cancers that originate from a kraurotic vulva are somewhat more benign in their course.1920, William Phillips Graves, Gynecology, page 291. From the entry kraurotic
• In that moment we can see our own country in their image: a country that is sober, benign and loaded.2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry loaded
• Eccrine poroma is a benign adnexal tumour of the uppermost portion of the intraepidermal eccrine sweat gland duct and acrosyringium.2015, Han Ma et al., “Eccrine poroma and porocarcinoma on the same unusual location: report on two cases*”, in Anais Brasileiros de…. From the entry acrosyringium
• As a parent, I think that it’s time to declare a period of benign neglect when it comes to food.2014 April 19, Mark Oppenheimer, “Let Them Drink Chocolate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, retrieved…. From the entry benign neglect
• I deliberately choose houseplants that thrive on benign neglect.2008 August 6, Ann Lovejoy, “Gardening: Camp can be a ball for houseplants”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, archived from the original on…. From the entry benign neglect
• By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.2004, Adrian Bejan et al., Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry ouroboros
• The traditional teaching is that cancer is associated with microcalcification, while benign breast disease is associated with macrocalcification.1997, Marc J. Homer, Mammographic Interpretation: A Practical Approach. From the entry macrocalcification
• Not all of the elven folk are benign.1996, David Goddard, “The Devas”, in The Sacred Magic of the Angels, Boston, Mass.; York Beach, Me.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser…. From the entry elven
• Technology refines slaughter into benign surgery: Kipling calls the abattoir an “operating-room.” Nature has been improvingly obliterated by the machine.1980, Peter Conrad, chapter 4, in Imagining America, New York: Oxford University Press, page 104. From the entry improvingly
• Goldman, like up to 90 percent of men in their 70s, has benign prostatic hyperplasia, or B.P.H., a nonmalignant growth of the prostate gland.2019 August 26, Jane E. Brody, “Alternatives to Surgery for an Enlarged Prostate”, in The New York Times. From the entry benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Clinical and dermatoscopic face-to-face diagnoses were considered suitable in patients with clinically and teledermoscopically benign and nonsuspected lesions and no biopsy procedure was performed.2018, C.B. Barcaui, P.M.O. Lima, “Application of Teledermoscopy in the Diagnosis of Pigmented Lesions”, in International journal of…. From the entry teledermoscopically
• For classification of detected mictocalcification into benign and malignant cases, eight features are identified and utilized in radial basis function neural network.2015, Alireza Shirazinodeh et al., “Detection and classification of Breast Cancer in Wavelet Sub-bands of Fractal Segmented Cancerous…. From the entry mictocalcification
• It tends to associate thousands of benign religious groups with the handful of destructive religious groups that have caused loss of life.2012, Joachim Onyeakor, Did We Create God?: God Scam Exposed!, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry snarl word
• Climate varies from among the harshest in the Subarctic in the northern territory of the Gwich'in to more benign among the Carrier in the south.2009, Alan D. McMillan, Eldon Yellowhorn, First Peoples In Canada, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry Gwich'in
• Political candidates appeal to those Christians by defining the ambition of Islamofascists in language that makes prior threats from, say, Hitler or Stalin seem benign.2008 January 21, James Carroll, “Carroll: Islamofascism's ill political wind”, in The New York Times. From the entry Islamofascist
• Preoperatively and intraoperatively it is difficult to distinguish benign and malignant lesions; all may demonstrate a mixture of intramural, endogastric and exogastric appearances.2007, Alan H. Freeman, Radiology of the Stomach and Duodenum, page 139. From the entry exogastric
• Indolence and timidity have united to popularise among us a flaccid latitudinarianism, which thinks itself a benign tolerance for the opinions of others.1908, John Morley, On Compromise. From the entry latitudinarianism
• The doctor suspected that the whitish speck of skin that Gillian had found next to her clitoris was lichen sclerosus, a skin condition that is usually benign.2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times. From the entry lichen sclerosus
• If the Paperclip Maximizer destroys the world for a silly goal, why don’t you and I destroy the world, given our goals can be less than benign?2019, Ben Orlin, Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World, New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, page 137. From the entry paperclip maximizer
• With microbiomics it is possible to collect enormous amounts of genetic and biological data of microbiota, including benign and pathogenic microorganisms and their host, relatively cheaply and rapidly.2013, Alfredo Guarino, Probiotic Bacteria and Their Effect on Human Health and Well-Being. From the entry microbiomics
• Some veg varieties are robust enough in our relatively benign climate to stay in the soil all winter, and to provide us with winter crops or welcome spring treats.2011, Jane Powers, The Living Garden: A Place That Works With Nature, London, England: Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry asparagussy
• Ellen Wright, 48, was operated on for five hours Tuesday to remove a benign meningioma tumour from the left side of her brain, after Clarke practised on her case.2009 August 20, Joseph Hall, Toronto Star. From the entry meningioma
• Dermatopathic lymphadenitis occurs in lymph nodes draining areas in which there has been disruption or irritation of the skin barrier due to any process, benign or malignant.2008, Lawrence M. Weiss, Lymph Nodes, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry dermatopathic lymphadenitis
• The psychologist Paul Rozin lumps tearjerkers with other examples of benign masochism like smoking, riding on roller coasters, eating hot chili peppers, and sitting in saunas.2003, Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry tearjerker
• In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry chine
• So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 48. From the entry palmy

Meaning of benign

1. adjective Kind; gentle; mild.
2. adjective Of a climate or environment, mild and favorable.
3. adjective Not harmful to the environment.

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Questions about benign in a sentence

How do you use benign in a sentence?

Benign is used as an adjective. For example: “We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.”

What is a short sentence with benign?

“a benign tumor”

What does benign mean?

Benign means kind; gentle; mild.