detriment
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“They probably got over their skis in terms of monetizing the platform at the detriment to user experience, and they’ve reset the growth plan and pivoted back to focusing on user experience,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
There is no shortage of ideas to dredge from this truth, about how we use art to cope, sometimes to our own detriment.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Because of that, experts say there is no detriment to English learning when a child is also exposed to another language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
All part of "a transaction that inflicted direct and concrete injury... to the detriment of Fifa as well as its 211 members", and was conducted under "a veil of secrecy".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
And what are the nutrition benefits — and, possible, detriments?
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
A founder of the Indian National Congress, he expressed the opinions of many middle-class Indians in 1871 when he wrote on the subject of the benefits and detriments of British rule of India.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
"Such experiences leave a trail of devastation for individuals and their teams and undermine the performance of our parliament to the nation's detriments," said Ms Jenkins, the report's author.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2021
Lawmakers are increasingly threatening to regulate the company following revelations from a former employee about internal company research on the detriments of its products.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
They point also to the truth, as I take it to be, that the lack of privacy is one of the most serious detriments of public-school life.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Vocabulary lists containing detriment
The Book Thief
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Tears of a Tiger
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Britain's Finest Hour Speech - Winston Churchill (1940)
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