collateral
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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
“These and other harms are not collateral to the antitrust case,” LULAC’s letter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
When equipment is bought on credit, it usually doubles as collateral, or the asset a lender can seize if the loan defaults.
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
He borrowed $311 from the Bank of America, using his car as collateral for the loan, and persuaded his wife to give him $15 in cash from her purse.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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
The authority for the truth thereof being derived from the same Authentick Records and Tradition on which is grounded the above-written Genealogie of their male collaterals.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
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Fast Food Nation
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