damaging

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A number of people died in Christchurch, New Zealand, from collapsing buildings resulting from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in 2011, despite the buildings having already been damaged in earlier, less damaging quakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

Targeting people who are contributing to their local communities and local economies, then removing them, is damaging to the economy, Sojourner said Thursday.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Equally damaging at home: the relentless channeling of resources toward industrial investment has left Chinese households too weak a driver of consumption to absorb the country’s output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

They faced freezing temperatures, gusts of wind and the daunting task of fighting fire with ice at the site of the largest civilian nuclear disaster in history without further damaging the confinement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

“I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole