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Recent Examples of collateral damage
Mayor Scott, Commissioner Worley, and Executive Ball have a responsibility to ensure that Baltimore does not become collateral damage in a fight over immigration policy.
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Christopher Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
The collateral damage has typically been deemed worth it though, because when a treatment works, the cancer is destroyed and the patient lives.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2024
The bottom line: As Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa wrote this week, the power struggle between Johnson and Martinez, and the collateral damage along the way, is unprecedented.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
The collateral damage has typically been deemed worth it though, because when a treatment works, the cancer is destroyed and the patient lives.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2024
The bottom line: As Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa wrote this week, the power struggle between Johnson and Martinez, and the collateral damage along the way, is unprecedented.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damage
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According to the Chicago Department of Transportation, 68% of traffic fatalities in 2023 involved speeding.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Sacramento hit-and-run fatalities from 2018-2022 Nearly 140 people were killed in hit-and-run crashes in Sacramento County between 2018 and 2022, according to a Sacramento Bee analysis of law enforcement and coroner reports.—
Ryan Lillis,
Sacramento Bee,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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One needn’t bluntly insert these facts, but there are times when Zimmerman’s screenplay, aiming for a kind of universality, sacrifices potential depth.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Some even compared the water to human sacrifice, which created a bit of an eerie vibe.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Olivia Godfrey, the couple's daughter, provided a victim impact statement and said her father's drug use impacted his mental health, according to ABC.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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One of my personal concerns is the tendency, particularly in Germany, to focus too much in films on the perpetrators, not the victims, like in Downfall or the recent Wannsee Conference adaptation.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Russia also struck Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region with drones causing casualties and damage, local authorities said Saturday.—
SAMYA KULLAB,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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Analyst Mariana Perez Mora said the pick is somewhat contrarian given that investors see the company, which is involved in modernizing the federal government’s information technology systems, as a potential casualty of DOGE’s cuts.—
Brian Evans,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2025
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These features, whether natural or man-made, provide critical foraging opportunities by increasing prey availability in the surrounding waters.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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On rare occasions, a very hungry bear may attack a human as prey.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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While initial reports had the campus destroyed, officials have indicated that the site, while damaged, is not a total loss.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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Games to Watch Classical Magnet (10-1) at Innovation (12-1), Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Innovation’s only loss came to Cheney Tech in overtime on Dec. 21; Classical’s only loss was to SMSA on Dec. 26.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2025
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Review Reviewed by Maria Lipman January/February 2025 Published on January 7, 2025 In This Review Patriot: A Memoir By Alexei Navalny Print Save The posthumous memoir by Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader, mingles the account of a politician with the story of a martyr.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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The defendant, who carried a handwritten manifesto decrying the American health care system, has been cast as a martyr by some people sympathetic to his apparent philosophy — and the charges could strengthen that perception.—
Hurubie Meko,
New York Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Collateral damage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damage. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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