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The SALT cap isn’t the problem — high-tax states are
Asian economies are the collateral damage of the US-China trade war
You’re all caught up.
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Aris Folley, The Hill, 23 May 2025
That will produce collateral damage far beyond just crypto enthusiasts.
—Mark Hays, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2025
While many are arguing (or speculating) about the true reason behind the attacks, as Ukraine had not attacked fertilizer plants before, the global food security and fertilizer markets are likely to suffer severe collateral damage no matter what the reasons for the attacks may be.
—Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Understanding these pathways in more detail could lead to new treatments that modulate immune responses more precisely, reducing collateral damage while preserving antimicrobial defenses.
—Andrew Monteith, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
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Aris Folley, The Hill, 23 May 2025
That will produce collateral damage far beyond just crypto enthusiasts.
—Mark Hays, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2025
While many are arguing (or speculating) about the true reason behind the attacks, as Ukraine had not attacked fertilizer plants before, the global food security and fertilizer markets are likely to suffer severe collateral damage no matter what the reasons for the attacks may be.
—Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Understanding these pathways in more detail could lead to new treatments that modulate immune responses more precisely, reducing collateral damage while preserving antimicrobial defenses.
—Andrew Monteith, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral damage
Noun
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Approximately 84% of these fatalities occurred among males.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Kerrville, the largest city in Kerr County, is roughly 100 miles west of Austin and 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. Kerr County reported the highest number of fatalities from the floods as of Monday afternoon.—
July 7,
CBS News,
7 July 2025
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Corder's funeral was held on July 11, with colleagues and city officials honoring his service and sacrifice.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
12 July 2025
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The percentage is small, in part, because military service demands an unusually high level of commitment and sacrifice.—
Terina Allen,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Now, as the families prepare for next week's sentencing hearing on July 23, Patterson and Ward are hoping to give readers a true sense of the four victims.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 July 2025
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And Singapore just passed an anti-scam law that allows law enforcement to freeze the bank accounts of scam victims.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
14 July 2025
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Watson, 46, who as deputy criminal chief was serving in one of the office’s senior positions, became another casualty in President Donald Trump’s mission to purge anyone found to have worked in some way for special counsel Jack Smith.—
Jay Weaver
July 14,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
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The Battle of the Somme ground on for another four months, at the cost of more than a million British, French, and German casualties.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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After all, snowmobiles can’t smell seals or polar bears, nor travel quietly enough to avoid scaring off potential prey.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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Since early 2024, according to an estimate by Mykhailo Samus, a researcher in Kyiv, about eighty per cent of its losses in men and matériel have been inflicted by drones.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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That widened from a loss of $437 million during the same stretch in 2024, which saw roughly the same revenue.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
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Look at the list of MEK martyrs, encompassing diverse social classes, and the MEK’s financial independence, funded entirely by Iranian contributions at home and abroad.—
Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
25 June 2025
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In those days, the water that gushed from the fountain at the sprawling cemetery south of Tehran was dyed red to honor the blood of Iran’s martyrs.—
Scott Peterson,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 June 2025
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“Collateral damage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral%20damage. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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