damages
Example Sentences
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He warned that sunbeds deliver harmful UV radiation that damages DNA, accelerates skin ageing and increases cancer risk, with no safe level of exposure.
From BBC
Edison is offering to pay for damages suffered by Eaton fire victims and a handful already accepted its offers.
From Los Angeles Times
If the Justice Department brings a civil false-claims lawsuit and wins in court, defendants risk being liable for three times the damages the government suffered.
Under the bill, a union representative alleging a violation can bring a civil action to “obtain damages.”
“The irony is that the people who are most hurt, those that abandon the search for care, have the hardest time recovering damages,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
