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Harmful

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Harmful meaning

Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.

Example sentences (20)

As a technical term it is being replaced in favour of more precise terminology including the generic term harmful algal bloom for harmful species, and algal bloom for non-harmful species.

Hypoxia is low or depleted oxygen levels in surface waters that can be harmful to aquatic species and can in some cases increase production of harmful greenhouse gases from rivers.

Not only would wearing clothing or symbols that are “harmful” be in violation of the law, but forcing someone else to wear “harmful” clothing or symbols would be in violation.

The arguments for 'app store is harmful to consumers' (versus 'harmful to app developers') is in my view tenuous.

If we want to reduce the devastating health effects and outcomes of smoking and the use of other harmful tobacco products, we must incentivize people to use less harmful ones on the path to quitting entirely.

It's harmful in the same way that it's harmful to publicly & credibly accuse someone of paedophilia.

The original scheme was rejected because building on the green space would have a harmful effect on the continuity of the green area and a harmful impact on the visual amenity of the area.

It accuses those companies of harmful practices including land seizures, violence against indigenous groups, illegal deforestation and the use of harmful pesticides.

Stevia extract is GRAS by FDA so the only way it can be harmful is at poison level high doses, the same way vitamins can be harmful.

They convert harmful pollutants into less harmful emissions before they leave the exhaust system.

Twitter is even trialing a moderator tool that warns users when they’re about to post “harmful” language, although it’s unclear what the company might deem harmful.

In addition to this, dust from coal and other minerals can be harmful to our lungs as well as that of animals, therefore it is important to ensure the technology is in place to remove these harmful partials from the air to keep it as healthy as possible.

Isabel Jarret, Manager of the Reducing Harmful Fisheries Subsidies program at Pew Charitable Trust, also asserts that harmful subsidies could be trade distorting, the elimination of which has been one of the WTO’s main aims.

The previous blob, a marine heat wave in 2013 and 2014, resulted in reduced fishing catches, a harmful harmful algal bloom along the entire west coast of North America a seabird die off and an increase in marine mammal strandings.

As harmful as payday and car title loans are, other seemingly harmful small dollar transactions can also cause financial havoc.

The Minister of health and Social welfare Saffie Lowe Ceesay emphasised the harmful effects of FGM/C on women and girls and assured the organisers that her ministry over the years, has collaborated with partners to stop this harmful effect in the Country.

Fund pollutants are not destroyed, but rather converted into less harmful substances, or diluted/dispersed to non-harmful concentrations.

Harmful interactions One of their most harmful roles is as the agent of many plant diseases.

If any argument is really wrong or harmful, the public will judge it as wrong or harmful, and then those arguments cannot be sustained and will be excluded.

Likewise, one might assume that criminalizing acts that in themselves do not harm other people (" victimless crimes ") may prevent subsequent harmful acts (assuming that people "prone" to commit these acts may tend to commit harmful actions in general).