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Recent Examples of collateral damage
Of course, the pair’s attempts to bury the past only cascade into further collateral damage and ethical compromise.
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Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
The collateral damage caused by that saga has affected Newcastle’s early-season performances, depriving them of a senior centre-forward for the opening three games and generally generating toxicity.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
That the lives of children are not acceptable collateral damage in an ideological campaign.
—CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The death of civilians and especially of children, who are victims, the collateral damage of a war which nobody has been able to terminate yet.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
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Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
The collateral damage caused by that saga has affected Newcastle’s early-season performances, depriving them of a senior centre-forward for the opening three games and generally generating toxicity.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
That the lives of children are not acceptable collateral damage in an ideological campaign.
—CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The death of civilians and especially of children, who are victims, the collateral damage of a war which nobody has been able to terminate yet.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damage
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Those figures dwarf the number of fatalities in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza since 2005, according to data from Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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This marks the 51st traffic fatality this year, according to data tracked by KCPD.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
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For Chinese authorities, this was a story of national unity, collective sacrifice, and ultimate victory over the virus.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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This was particularly present in the dynamic between Bobby's widow, Athena (Angela Bassett), and Chim (Kenneth Choi), who's alive because of Bobby's sacrifice.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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Bystanders in the area helped authorities lift part of the helicopter and get the victim out, who was then loaded into an ambulance, according to Sylvia.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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The first arriving engine found one of the victims had been trapped under the helicopter, Sylvia said.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Israeli military has acknowledged firing warning shots toward crowds in some instances and denied responsibility for other casualties near aid hubs.—
Soph Warnes,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Separately, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières said that as Port-au-Prince plunges deeper into crisis marked by violent clashes between police and armed groups, the charity’s doctors are seeing a rise in the number of civilian casualties at its facilities.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, a story from Indiana explains how one bird species skewers its prey on barbed wire, then returns for it later.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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As another new spooky season option, this new offering from Netflix is a survival series from the perspective of nature's prey.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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According to Hanke, Milei’s big loss in the Buenos Aires contest and the acceleration in the peso’s decline confirmed the Money Doctor’s warning that the inevitable lure for mismanaging the peso was Milei’s Achilles’ heel.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Completely outplayed by the Brewers thus far in a National League Division Series, the Cubs are teetering on the brink of elimination after Monday night’s 7-3 loss at American Family Field.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Continue reading … ‘PYRRHIC VICTORY’ – Charlie Kirk confidant says ‘liar’ Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t deserve to be a martyr.—
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FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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On Sunday, he was lionized as a Christian martyr and patriot committed to free expression and challenging liberal orthodoxy.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Collateral damage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damage. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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