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Recent Examples of collateral damage
The introduction of direct payments from schools to athletes in 2025 will mark another revolutionary change, and collateral damage from the combined upheaval has the potential to affect every key stakeholder of the sport.
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Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
The New York for All Act is a crucial first step in protecting immigrant communities from becoming collateral damage in Trump’s deportation agenda.
—Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
But there’s a surprising amount of collateral damage here, too.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
The New York for All Act is a crucial first step in protecting immigrant communities from becoming collateral damage in Trump’s deportation agenda.
—Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
But there’s a surprising amount of collateral damage here, too.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damage
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There have been no reported injuries or fatalities, officials said.David Chiu, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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But Boring’s letter did not address what would replace ordinances that required multiple layers of inspection and the immediate notification of injuries and fatalities.Daniel Rothberg, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2025
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Biles explores the sacrifices but also the pressure that comes with sustained success.Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Yet in pregnancy, Mama Rice Pudding transforms into something more complex—a creative block that threatens to silence Shafak’s literary voice by forbidding books and demanding the sacrifice of artistic pursuits at the altar of maternal duty.Fidan Cheikosman, JSTOR Daily, 1 Jan. 2025
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Identities of the victims are yet to be released, per CNN.Clare Fisher, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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The number of victims killed in the Bourbon Street attack has risen to 15, Fox News has learned.Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
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Conflict can be a powerful force in changing a nation's demographics by creating refugees, but also casualties.Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Few of them showed signs of fighting, such as being burned in explosions or bearing bloodstains from casualties.Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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But a recent program introduced sheepdogs, which guard the flocks from the predators and direct the cats to hunt their natural prey, reducing interactions with the gauchos.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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This increases our reliance on technical preventative controls and response and recovery capabilities should a user inadvertently fall prey to a social engineering attempt.James Blake, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, tasked with a review of the potential acquisition, shared concerns about the national security risks posed by the loss of the country's second-largest steel producer.Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Affecting the Brain: GLP-1 drugs interact with brain centers that control hunger, which can lead to weight loss.Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 2 Jan. 2025
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White South Carolinians praised the Klansmen as martyrs of the former Confederacy.Brittany Friedman / Made by History, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
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Violent rioters — prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned — somehow became patriotic martyrs.Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Collateral damage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damage. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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