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Under detention centre Rule 35, staff must complete a report on detainees who are "injuriously affected" by being held, along with those who have suicidal intentions or have been tortured.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

Was there a particularly long history of Tennessee children being injuriously exposed to obscene female impersonators?

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

He promised that his actions under the proposed law would be carefully weighed "so as to give assurance that no sound and important American interest will be injuriously disturbed."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the pear, this process renders it soft, but still fit for food, while in the apple it causes a decay which acts injuriously on its qualities.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.