detriment
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Along the way the reader follows Graham as the academy’s intrigue threatens to consume him, to the detriment of his legal practice and his marriage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“I want to improve myself, but not at the detriment of others,” Cruise tells GQ.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Morgan added: "I need to be clear that there'll be no learner that would be at a detriment as a result of this being the first iteration of those qualifications."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
They were committed to that sense of camaraderie with their neighbors, even to their financial detriment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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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