inflict
Example Sentences
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A criminal conviction, even with a modest sentence, could still inflict serious damage, including a "big reputational impact," Tokson said.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Goïta also claimed armed and security forces had managed to inflict "heavy losses" on the rebels.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
The plaintiffs had not even established that shifting power generation toward technologies that inflict less damage on humans and the planet qualified as “harm” here.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
America’s strategy seems to be to inflict so much economic pain on Tehran that it backs down, Croft added, but Iran has weathered maximum-pressure sanctions in the past without giving up on its uranium-enrichment aspirations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
“Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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The Bill of Rights
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