detrimental
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Encouraging us to shift our gaze from the wall to our devices — to assume that accursed downward tilt of the neck when splendors abound before our eyes — is simply detrimental.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Meanwhile in a statement Fermanagh and Omagh Council said such dumping incidents could have "detrimental impacts on our natural environment and biodiversity and increases the risk of water pollution".
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
“This, of course, could be detrimental, especially if applied in the wrong context.”
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
“If you believe that something is detrimental to the economic well-being of New York City, you need to be vocal about it,” Fulop, 49 years old, said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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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