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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost harmed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something was close to being harmed but ultimately was not.
Example: "During the storm, the tree almost harmed the car parked nearby when a large branch fell."
Alternatives: "nearly injured" or "close to being harmed."
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But even when your mistake is caught and a potential crisis averted, you are left with the knowledge that you almost harmed a patient you were trying to protect.
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In this, her latest and most heart-rending novel, a vulnerable family is at the heart of the mystery, with a mother, father, daughter and son at stake and almost irrevocably harmed.
But it is more germane to the present argument that the wrongs also almost certainly harmed their daughter Eulah.
The Sony hacks, for instance, almost certainly harmed the consumers and as such are deplorable acts — but Sony is more deplorable for its irresponsibility and tone-deaf response.
These wrongs to Tom and Beulah almost certainly harmed them by forcing them to remain longer in the poverty and ignorance that slavery had put them in.
I find it hard to understand why some have chosen to attack Celtic's style when any other approach would almost definitely harmed their chances of UEFA cup football.
Blaine entered the 1876 presidential campaign as the favorite, but his chances were almost immediately harmed by the emergence of a scandal.
I'm wearing a shirt that probably made multiple humans miserable as it was being created, and almost certainly harmed the planet in a fairly major way, and I don't even know where it came from or how it was made.
Failure to take action on the biggest banks, a single-payer plan, widening inequality, and discrimination will almost certainly harm the economy.
In a further twist of the screw, the coalition's second great change in the electoral system – the combination of more equal parliamentary constituencies with more frequent boundary changes – will almost certainly harm the Liberal Democrats and, for that matter, all small parties and independents.
Avoid normalization or compliance therapies, as these will almost certainly harm your child.[16][17].[16][17]
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