detrimental
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Katz wrote in an email that the extra expense of around $2,000 per device were “cost prohibitive and detrimental to public safety.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
“Loss of muscle mass is detrimental to moving around and quality of life, but it is also not safe,” said Katsu Funai, associate professor at the University of Utah.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
There are few things more detrimental to women’s advancement in the workforce than leaving it altogether.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
"Our historical experience has taught us that delegating vital matters... to international judicial bodies has been detrimental to our sovereignty and our territorial integrity," he said.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
It suggested that he must have made — or been planning to make — more Horcruxes, so that the loss of his first would not be so detrimental.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing detrimental
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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