damage
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The worst damage was in the facilities division, where about half the servers were encrypted — meaning that district staff could not access their own systems and records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Earlier this year, four of the group's activists were jailed after causing £1.2m of damage at a UK site of an Israel-based defence firm.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
In addition, 71 percent of claims were compensated either partially or in full, with that figure rising to 93 percent for homes where the damage exceeded 150,000 euros.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
BANGKOK—Economic damage from high energy prices and rising borrowing costs is mounting globally, splitting the world into a new set of winners and losers as countries with limited exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom fall behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
She pulled her bicycle off me and inspected it for damage.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed in September 2025, but the federal monitors recently released their report containing key details about the incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Disasters costing at least $1 billion totaled more than $115 billion of damages in 2025, nearly four times the annual average in the 1990s, according to a Ceres study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The discovery comes from a University of Florida study investigating bacterial blotch, a persistent disease that damages white button mushrooms and causes significant financial losses for growers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The $108 million in compensation accounts for both material and moral damages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The fines and damages that Garrett had to pay took every dollar of his property.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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In an update on Friday evening, Division 3 Fire Chief Mark Backoff said that six homes had either been damaged or destroyed by the Norte Fire, and one firefighter had been injured from heat exhaustion.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Stupnikov emerged from a street flanked by damaged buildings and took his first steps into no-man’s-land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This helps return mTORC1 activity to a healthier balance, allowing muscle cells to remove damaged proteins while continuing to produce the new proteins they need.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Some protested specific projects, notably the World Bank-backed Pak Mun dam, a hydropower project completed in 1994 that fishing communities say damaged their livelihoods.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
But his case for insanity was damaged when his former wife, Annie, was called to the witness stand by the prosecution.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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We know how damaging it is, and we know what group is doing the damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The warming phase of a natural climate cycle, El Nino events temporarily elevate global temperatures, altering cloud and wind patterns, and raise the risk of damaging weather.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Once researchers understood the role of GFAP, their next challenge was finding a way to reduce its production and prevent damaging levels of the protein from accumulating in brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Coastal flooding advisories from San Diego through San Luis Obispo, however, remain in place, with two more sets of potentially damaging high tides projected for Monday and Tuesday mornings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Agriculture Department’s mass control program, on the other hand, cost about $3.50 per acre — the most expensive, the most damaging, and the least effective program of all.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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