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Recent Examples of collateral damage
There’s no version of a shutdown where real people aren’t collateral damage.
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Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
And it’s been even harder for my daughter, Piper, who’s become collateral damage in a mess of adults behaving badly.
—Sara Belcher, People.com, 1 May 2025
From book bans to budget cuts, from anti-DEI policies to culture war campaigns, the targets may be political, but the collateral damage is generational.
—Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
But the collateral damage of this popular form of entertainment doesn’t end there.
—John J. Lennon, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
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Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
And it’s been even harder for my daughter, Piper, who’s become collateral damage in a mess of adults behaving badly.
—Sara Belcher, People.com, 1 May 2025
From book bans to budget cuts, from anti-DEI policies to culture war campaigns, the targets may be political, but the collateral damage is generational.
—Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
But the collateral damage of this popular form of entertainment doesn’t end there.
—John J. Lennon, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damage
Noun
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Of those, 94 fatalities are attributed to rainfall flooding.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
1 June 2025
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Nationally, water, both freshwater flooding and saltwater storm surge, has been responsible for 63% of the direct fatalities from hurricanes in the past decade, said Brennan.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
31 May 2025
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But what's really cool is how the movie brings those story lines together in a narrative filled with intriguing twists, gnarly kills, heroic sacrifices and a slew of nifty new Predator designs.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Readers of my deals stories will know that the sacrifice for these freebies is historically poor trade-in valuations compared to U.S. pricing.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Jones added what doesn't make sense in all this is Gov. Gavin Newsom's Democratic Party continues to push to protect perpetrators instead of victims and using the Menendez brothers' case to get their bill across the finish line.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2025
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The victim, 33-year-old Rebecca Roth, was found by her mother inside a Hyundai Elantra in the parking lot of the Tall Oaks apartment complex on Long Tree Lane early Friday morning, according to police.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
7 June 2025
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The very functions that could inform smarter, more efficient resource allocation become the first casualties.—
Nick Hart,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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These attacks typically involve drivers intentionally plowing into crowds, often during festivals, parades, or protests, causing chaos and mass casualties.—
Jenna Sundel
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
Noun
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In late 2019, a telemarketing company in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area fell prey to a crippling ransomware attack.—
Harry Kazakian,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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The results also indicate that megalodon populations living in different habitats had slightly contrasting diets, potentially because of differing prey availability.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The lack of playing time this season for Reyes, in particular, may have burned the Yankees’ chances for possibly pulling out a win in a 10-7 loss against Boston on Saturday.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
8 June 2025
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Ryan Yarbrough had known nothing but success in the Yankees’ rotation, but that changed in a 10-7 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday night.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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In the years after the attack, Trump lionized the Jan. 6 attackers and praised Babbitt as a martyr to his MAGA cause.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
19 May 2025
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During the Victorian era, luminaries such as Wilkie Collins and Alfred, Lord Tennyson paid tribute to Franklin, eulogizing him as a martyr who sacrificed himself for the cause of scientific advancement.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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“Collateral damage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damage. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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