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Therefore, many researchers have deployed themselves to explore valuable results for this class of non-convex functions. This paper obtains new discrete inequalities for univariate harmonic convex functions on linear spaces related to a Jensen-type and a variant of the Jensen-type results. Our results are refinements of very important recent inequalities presented by Dragomir and Baloch et al. 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