Example Sentences

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Yet Whitten clearly struggled with his sense of self — despite the fact that his sexuality, an open fact, didn’t detrimentally impact his career crafting images for others.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

These chemical pollutants then enter the human food chain and water supply, detrimentally impacting the health of approximately 92 million individuals annually.

From Science Daily • Sep. 25, 2023

“Each leg of the U.S. nuclear triad could be detrimentally affected by climate change,” Kwong said.

From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2023

A censure is the most serious disciplinary action for conduct that not only violates the code’s rules but also detrimentally affects the integrity of the judiciary and undermines public confidence in the administration of justice.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2022

It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker