detriment

Example Sentences

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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

It is intended to mislead consumers into believing they connected to it - to the detriment of the established brand.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

He expected a scenario of "continuity of the regime with new rules of the game -- perhaps to the detriment of the clerics, but with the same people in charge".

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 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