damage
noun
injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness.
Example Sentences
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Leads have been lost against Manchester United, Brentford and - most damagingly - Wolves in recent weeks.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
The Little complaint lays out the same basic facts of the 2022 Salon article, but adds the charge that Hogshead falsely and damagingly piggybacked on SafeSport’s retaliatory investigation of Little, one of its leading critics.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
The potential for damagingly inaccurate outputs is heightened by AI bots’ natural language capabilities, with which they offer even absurdly inaccurate answers with convincingly cocksure elan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
More damagingly for Arsenal, however, Xhaka was also culpable of ducking out of the way of McTominay’s shot.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2019
Perhaps most damagingly, two private eyes, including one from the Burns agency, tried to expose the bureau’s main informant, Kelsie Morrison.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
