collateral damage

Example Sentences

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“Did you calculate the collateral damage before pulling the trigger?”

From The Wall Street Journal

But those security forces are located in busy residential areas, often causing collateral damage, residents said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rosenzweig came to suspect that the “whole” can’t be seized in one grand idea—whether Reason, History or Nation—without turning the individual into collateral damage.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the world’s population giant is experiencing collateral damage anyway, at an already challenging time.

From Barron's

But the world’s population giant is experiencing collateral damage anyway, at an already challenging time.

From Barron's