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  • noun Plural form of harm.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harm.

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Examples

  • In the light of much courage and bravery currently on far flung fields, it is easy to overlook that there are a great many men and women much nearer to home who everyday put themselves in harms way to keep us all safe.

    PC Bill Barker – Officer Down. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • We will NOT put a carrier battle group in harms way.

    Matthew Yglesias » Mark Bowden, Atlantic, Shilling for the F-22 2009

  • SO, how close are the neighbors and is all of your family accounted for and not in harms way from your "friendly fire"?

    shotgun for home defense 2009

  • This should be a reminder for us members of the public of the many different ways Police officers put themselves in harms way for our sake, day in day out.

    PC Bill Barker – Officer Down. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Weighing benefits and harms is especially important when considering the use of preventive interventions in healthy individuals, in whom there is a special obligation to do no harm. (italics mine) It is so important to remember that before the WHI, we were prescribing hormone replacement to women just because they were menopausal.

    The WHI through the Restrospectoscope aka TBTAM 2009

  • SO, how close are the neighbors and is all of your family accounted for and not in harms way from your "friendly fire"?

    shotgun for home defense 2009

  • I can hardly hold back the tears when I think of our young men and women putting themselves in harms way for me and mine.

    Flag Day 2009

  • Your Hipocrisy and loud mouth always brings the memory of thousands of young people you placed in harms way.

    Cheney endorses Rubio for Senate 2010

  • I can hardly hold back the tears when I think of our young men and women putting themselves in harms way for me and mine.

    Flag Day 2009

  • The number of young people in harms way is the depletion of our national treasure.

    Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll 2010

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