detrimental
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"Our historical experience has taught us that delegating vital matters... to international judicial bodies has been detrimental to our sovereignty and our territorial integrity," he said.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
But Dallas’s elected officials, nearly all of whom were opposed to the measures, say the reality has been detrimental.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Sleep training is basically torture for parents while you are going through the training portion of things, so much so that many loudly claim that sleep training is actively detrimental to babies.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
“Being on the outs can be truly detrimental to one’s career but also to one’s health and ability to have a community.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing detrimental
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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This Week in Words: January 27 - February 2, 2018
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