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collateral

[kuh-lat-er-uhl] / kəˈlæt ər əl /




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I can’t count myself in their company, knowing that the collateral damage would likely be massive.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Two things will tell you whether this hardware can become collateral.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

“This weapon might help minimize corruption but with collateral damage,” John F. Hulpke, a professor at University College Dublin, wrote in the Journal of Management Inquiry in 2017.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

Purists might refer to it as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, but the rest of the world knows it as the career-saving surgery named for a sore-armed left-handed Dodgers pitcher.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

I felt immediately sorry Dadi had become collateral damage; I’ve never spoken to her that way.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Evergrande's offshore debt restructuring involves a total of $31.7 billion, which include bonds, collaterals and repurchase obligations.

From Reuters Aug. 18, 2023

Fortunately, our bodies are well protected against this kind of loss and can quickly grow new vessels, called collaterals, that carry blood around the bypass to the starving tissues beyond.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2016

For the most part, the parents, grandparents, and collaterals are persons strongly preoccupied with abstractions of a scientific, literary, or artistic nature, and limited in genuine interest in people.”

From Slate May 1, 2013

The audience’s own knee ligaments screamed in sympathy — medial collaterals fraying like hemp rope.

From Washington Post Aug. 5, 2012

Therefore, although in the matter of lineage no distinction could be justly set up between the Northern and the Southern Courts, the collaterals of legitimacy were all with the latter.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley




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