adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
malignant/benign tumour (= caused by or not caused by cancer )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
environmentally
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Mr. Trippier My right hon. Friend is not environmentally benign but environmentally friendly.
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They started buying artifacts that they saw as environmentally benign - with remarkable effect.
more
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It may be that the best corrective to them arises from frequent interaction with a more benign reality.
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Fortunately, inter-agency rivalries are usually more benign .
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We report photographic follow-up of patients with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi and 20 or more benign naevi.
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After a successful revolution, however, a more benign and positive state can be installed.
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The door was pushed open and Zak Smythe, who grew more benign as the days went by, appeared.
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All are testimony to a wetter, more benign past.
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Instead, a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun.
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The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.
most
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But gifts such as these can not be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most benign of governments.
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There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.
relatively
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In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.
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One advantage that Roundup has over other herbicides is that it is relatively benign to the environment.
■ NOUN
neglect
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Indeed, after years of benign neglect , the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.
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Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect .
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Where interiors have survived, it has been through benign neglect .
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Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.
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A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.
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Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
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A policy worthy of the suspicion of benign neglect .
stricture
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The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain.
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It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.
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The rectum was the commonest site of benign strictures , 68% in our study, as in others.
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In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.
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Of the patients with benign strictures , 32 had universal colitis and 10 had left sided involvement alone.
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Although these strictures are more difficult to dilate than other benign strictures, in experienced hands most patients can be treated successfully.
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Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction.
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In one case of benign stricture , the endoscopy biopsy specimen was reported as being suspicious for malignancy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a benign tumor
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the animal's benign nature
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But gifts such as these can not be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most benign of governments.
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If kept in a small cul-de-sac by itself, it will be utterly benign .
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Perhaps the expansion can continue and possibly it will one day taper off in benign fashion.
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Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.
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The benign old woman wore a big flowered garden hat and tended a magical flower garden.
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There is an hierarchical structure, but managerial authority is respected as a benign guardian of company interests.