damage
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Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The full extent of the damage is still being assessed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
About 2,000 residents in Nagekeo were evacuated with damage reported to a number of buildings.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Aides have helped sell him on the strategy by showing him data on the damage that sanctions have already inflicted on the regime, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Ba hoped that the store was thriving and that the first shipment had arrived without too much damage.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The New Jersey dealer is seeking at least $25 million in damages after the Chinese-owned automaker’s exit from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And it emerged from a damages suit about leaked records that placed no tax liability in controversy.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a case brought by four US states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The lawsuit seeks a whopping $1.4 trillion in damages from the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The iron damages the left hemisphere more than the right, the front of the frontal cortex more than the back, the underside more than the top.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Elsewhere in the West Midlands, in Goldenhill, Stoke-on-Trent, four homes in Sandyford were destroyed on Thursday, with other nearby properties damaged.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
A tsunami warning was later lifted but people were warned not to return to damaged buildings for fear that aftershocks may bring them down.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
John is clichéd in a different way, the former Marine sharpshooter who has worked all his life to be a Lantern and is not nearly as damaged as he ought to be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That timing appears to be essential for producing enough mature oligodendrocytes to properly restore the damaged myelin sheath.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Silent or endlessly relating their losses, withdrawn or fiercely aggressive, every one was a damaged human being.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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"Cytology brushes can be used when dry and do an excellent job of harvesting cellular material without damaging the integrity of the artifact being sampled," says Breen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Monday, destroying 153 buildings and damaging many others across several provinces along the country’s western mountain range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many medical experts cast the push as scientifically baseless and potentially damaging to public health.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Jackson described the document as a thinly veiled attempt to “prejudice Mr. Flores and impact the jury pool” by releasing damaging information about the officer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The little group of defenders shoved them back, sinking two destroyers and damaging nine other ships, shooting down two bombers, and forcing the Japanese to abort, their first loss of the war.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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