as in injures
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption
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Early on in the clip, Jake Johnson’s former tennis star Dusty Boyd trips over the net and injures his wrist in a bad way.
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Who is responsible when a robot breaks something or injures someone?
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Most notably, those who switched faced a 24% higher risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a condition that damages the blood vessels in the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
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Your Eyes High blood pressure also damages the sensitive back lining of the eye called the retina.
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Jacob Whitehead Homophobic chant mars Mexico’s win Before the World Cup, the Mexican football federation launched a campaign that featured the heroes of the country’s 1986 World Cup side.
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No sadness mars the purity of its paranoia.
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Losing in Game 7 already hurts enough, but losing in extra innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers is a real twist of the knife.
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Neighbors are worried the next crash could be the one that busts through their wall or hurts someone who lives in one of the nearby homes.
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Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
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In the final version of the film, Furiosa captures Dementus, cripples him, brings him back to the Citadel.
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When the dollar weakens, commodity prices expressed in dollars tend to rise to maintain purchasing power parity for buyers operating in other currencies.
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But the corresponding upheaval is still catastrophic for any surrounding planets, which either get swallowed up by the expanding star, or drift into wider orbits as the star’s gravity weakens—some are flung out from the system entirely.
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