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as in marred
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
the explosion in the sewers damaged the entire city's water supply
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as in wounded
to cause bodily damage to
his knee was badly damaged in the accident, and he walked with a limp for months
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for damaged
Verb
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At least 35 people were injured in the incident, officials said, and at the time some were hospitalized in critical condition.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2025 -
Within the past 24-hours— according to Gaza’s Health Ministry— more than 59 people have been killed by strikes in the area and more than 270 have been injured.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Chiefs are the least flawed of the four remaining teams, and whoever comes out of the AFC should win the Super Bowl.—
Hannah Vanbiber,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Structural balance frameworks aim to stabilize budgets over the economic cycle but often fail due to their flawed design.—
Vance Ginn,
National Review,
24 Jan. 2025
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But others argue these budget controls are ensuring Connecticut won’t return to the 2010s, a decade marred by frequent annual deficits and some of the largest tax hikes in state history.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2025
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The couple welcomed two children, True, 6, and Tatum, 2, but their romance was marred by Thompson's multiple cheating scandals.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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Drawing 2-2 up in Manchester earlier this season with 10 men after Trossard was sent off in first-half stoppage time for kicking the ball away hurt Arsenal.—
Amy Lawrence,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Economists have long warned that tariffs – duties on imports— will boost inflation and hurt consumers.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Although imperfect, the filmmaker’s presentation of cancer’s various transmutable qualities via Gibson’s creative legacy and inspiring life partnership is effective.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
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Cybersecurity can potentially be compromised by the same computational capacity that enables the solution of complex issues.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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In a few cases, Social Security numbers were also compromised.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2024
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Yet even a broken clock can be right twice a day, and senators should keep in mind that, on balance, these are not serious people.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Further tour cancellations followed a back injury in 2013 and a broken hip and subsequent infection in 2014.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Damaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damaged. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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