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"Because the city is failing us, and I don't want to feel like I'm collateral damage. And my rights matter, too."

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In one of the film’s most charged moments, Peck turns Orwell’s warning about political language into a montage of modern euphemisms: “peacekeeping operations,” “collateral damage,” “illegals” — and then, pointedly, “antisemitism 2024.”

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"He hoped to minimise any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people," she added.

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The IDF told us that it is "committed to mitigating civilian harm during operational activity" and that it "makes great efforts to estimate and consider potential civilian collateral damage in its strikes".

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There was always going to be collateral damage from Isak's stance at Newcastle and Wolves are feeling that now.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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