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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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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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Aiming for the cheaper end of the market inevitably means that technology sacrifices have to be made.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2025
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In the decades since her mission, advances in technology have reduced the need for such sacrifices.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Sally Smith, a spokesperson for the police department, said Wednesday morning that she's heard the victim is in stable condition at the moment.—
Remington Miller,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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The other victims suffered smoke inhalation and other minor injuries.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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The Ukrainians are taking casualties, too of course—and struggling to keep their front-line brigades fully manned.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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His administration has faced backlash for not doing enough to press Israel to avoid civilian casualties in its military offensive.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
16 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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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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Marner was requested to speak to the media after the loss to the Stars but was not made available.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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In Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy, Bridget Jones is reeling after the loss of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and navigating life as a single mom.—
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 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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