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hurts

  • present tense form
    of hurt (3rd person singular).
    hurt
    verb (used with object)
    to cause bodily injury to; injure.

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Barring that, it never hurts to channel Helen Lovejoy from “The Simpsons”: You won’t go broke thinking about how we should all think of the children.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Determining these factors was mostly beyond the scope of my brief — but it never hurts to speculate a bit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Just like during the 2008-2009 recession, when oil prices hit their all-time high, deferred maintenance from the retailers’ financially pinched lower-income clientele hurts sales at first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

So, yes it hurts me and it hurts, the fact that the damage has been done.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Seeing that hurts more than I thought it would.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas