detriment

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There’s one antiprinciple to this: Do not invest in companies that intentionally try to addict their customers to spend more time, attention and money on them, to the detriment of those customers’ flourishing.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Micron and its peers are trying to manufacture these chips as quickly as possible, and that’s rippling through the whole memory supply chain to the detriment of consumer goods manufacturers.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

And to fully eliminate the Dolan discount, they likely would have to sever their ties, because currently MSG Sports is subsidizing the other Dolan companies to its great detriment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

And that exclusion “from the legal and political structures that govern his life” is to the detriment of both the individual and “the nation.”

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper