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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actively harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions that intentionally cause damage or injury to someone or something.
Example: "The new policy could actively harm the community by reducing access to essential services."
Alternatives: "deliberately damage" or "intentionally injure".
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Some colleges actively harm their students by packaging high-cost loans with their student-aid offers, to make the school appear more affordable than it really is.
In pursuing cuts to employment support allowance (ESA), forcing through the bedroom tax and ramping up the number and severity of sanctions meted out to jobseekers, Duncan Smith waved through policies that actively harm health.
They won't actively harm the roots, but their capacity for making drainage holes – so wonderful in the soil – can be a bit of a problem in a pot, as the holes whisk the water through too quickly.
As many quickly pointed out, this suggested Trump may go further than merely standing by as the law supposedly implodes, as he had previously contemplated doing, and may seek to actively harm the law.
These days, for an established act the kind of exposure offered by online services is not only superfluous but can actively harm sales: with her music pre-emptively in your pocket, why would you buy a Taylor Swift album that you essentially already own?
That's why links from low-authority or untrustworthy sources are practically useless, and might actively harm your brand's reputation with search engines.
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It's actively harming our investors, markets and consumers.
I don't like feminism and I think it actively harms gender roles".
Must we conclude that Congress, by its own admission, has become an institution that actively harms the country?
Ubisoft has actively harmed this game's chances of success by pushing such stuff when what it should be focusing on is building a player base.
Only in certain extreme circumstances, when states could not or would not protect their own citizens, or were actively harming them, might others step in.
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