detracting

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Mr. Gallo’s design for this is evocative, but a backdrop depicting a cityscape looms behind it, detracting from the play’s intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

But regardless of how that comeback ends, Vonn isn’t worried about it detracting from what she’s already accomplished.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

But they were deemed to be too loud and risked "drowning supporter emotions and detracting from the experience of the game," European football's governing body said.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

The Golden Gate Bridge is a rare blend of form and function, a massive structure that somehow adds to nature’s beauty instead of detracting from it.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2023

If the Book of Joshua were indeed the work of the great man whose name it bears, no later historian would have ventured to impair its value by adding to or detracting from its contents.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles