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collateral damages

noun

plural of collateral damage
as in fatalities

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damages
  1. fatalities
  2. casualties
  3. victims
  4. losses
  5. prey
  6. sacrifices
Noun
  • The proper accounting of military fatalities has implications beyond public transparency.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The classification covers incidents involving aircraft destruction, fatalities, or qualifying damage exceeding $2 million.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of fatalities
Noun
  • The film’s title, NAZA, comes from an acronym the Israeli military uses as a shorthand for civilian casualties.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2026
  • There were no immediate reports of casualties on any of the trains.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of casualties
Noun
  • The studies with these conclusions have not held up over time and may be victims of publication bias.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Once a case enters the criminal justice system, control shifts almost entirely to state or federal officials, often leaving victims feeling sidelined.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of victims
Noun
  • Historically, the party holding the White House has suffered major losses in midterms.
    — Steve Peoples, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Roughly half of losses from natural hazards worldwide are uninsured.
    — Marcene Mitchell, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of losses
Noun
  • Threats facing the species include habitat loss, declining prey populations and human-wildlife conflict.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Over Labor Day weekend, Springfield Public Schools, a district in western Massachusetts that serves twenty-three thousand students across some sixty schools, fell prey to a cyberattack that shuttered classes for four days.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of prey
Noun
  • Labor leaders say those sacrifices, coupled with deep staffing cuts in the 2010s, left agencies in social services, healthcare, public safety and other key fields unable to retain many workers.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • After over four and a half years, Russia has been unable to convert its immense military sacrifices in Ukraine into meaningful military gains.
    — MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of sacrifices
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“Collateral damages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damages. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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