deleterious
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This leads to dehydration and eventually “desertification”—a phenomenon the film tracks across a quasi-equatorial band of the Earth, where deforestation in pursuit of farmland has had a deleterious effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Demand destruction is among the many deleterious consequences of oil near $100 a barrel, said Pavel Molchanov, investment strategy analyst at Raymond James.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Those beneficial mutations in the old environment might become deleterious in the new environment."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
But he demonstrated Wednesday that his leadership remains intact—and strong enough to prevent tension in the Fed’s dual mandate from devolving into deleterious tension within the committee.
From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025
“The results are always more significant if the patient and I are alone when the psychosubstantiation tests are performed. External distractions have a deleterious effect on the ramified scores.”
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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