detriment
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And both risk pushing the law toward technical rules that operate to the detriment of voters themselves.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
Several factors are conspiring to drive interest rate structurally higher, to the detriment of private credit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
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
But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
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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