collateral damage
Example Sentences
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I can’t count myself in their company, knowing that the collateral damage would likely be massive.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Higher education is in real financial trouble and Strouse’s lost scholarship is one piece of the growing collateral damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At the time, Greenspan told MarketWatch that the biggest challenge facing the central bank was unwinding its enormous postcrisis balance sheet while causing minimal collateral damage to financial markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
The news of peace came with a sense of bewilderment and uncertainty in a region that suffered as collateral damage through months of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
She’s nothing but collateral damage in this whole mess, and it makes me feel some kind of way.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
