damaging
Americanadjective
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North Carolina's blueberry growers are facing an emerging threat from a destructive beetle whose larvae feed underground, damaging plant roots and potentially killing blueberry bushes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Although it features a seance, “The Unbelievers,” by Nick Payne, is not truly a ghost story but a drama about the debilitating persistence of grief, and the equally damaging persistence of hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The breakthrough reveals that a chemical signal responsible for attracting immune cells to fight infections also helps prevent those same defenses from damaging healthy tissue.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Stevens chose to pull her switcheroo, yet El-Sayed has done a bunch of tactically questionable things that seem to have made that outcome more likely—and could make it more politically damaging, too.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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