damaging
Example Sentences
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Critics say the burden on young professionals is particularly damaging because they are typically an economy’s most prolific spenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Around 2,000 had been evacuated from nearby villages as the fire ripped through the surrounding hills, damaging homes and destroying cars in the early hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Such cells might eventually be given to people preventively, before those damaging aggregates begin accumulating.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
