Example Sentences

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Jurors will return to court here on Thursday to continue deliberations in a civil trial accusing Meta and YouTube of harmfully hooking young internet users.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

It’s not that carbon offsets have to suck—it’s more that they’re poorly overseen, little understood, and harmfully relied on as a magical solution.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2023

But the American Medical Association complained that the COVID-19 drugs could interact harmfully with drugs for other conditions and that physicians, who don’t typically staff pharmacies, are best equipped to prescribe them safely.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2022

But there is a risk that, in cases of high mutation load, elimination of mutated mtDNA could reduce the mtDNA copy number to harmfully low levels.

From Nature • Jul. 7, 2020

Thus, if a lawyer discovers that serious fraud has been practised or that the court or the opposition has been harmfully imposed upon, he is unjust if he takes advantage of this through silence.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome