damaging

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“This is one of the very damaging earthquakes, because you combined a very large event with residences of a lot of people,” seismologist Lucy Jones, a Caltech research associate, said at a briefing Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Targeting people who are contributing to their local communities and local economies, then removing them, is damaging to the economy, Sojourner said Thursday.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Intensive farming practices that were heavy on fertilizers and pesticides were found to be damaging soil health and were ruled out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

They faced freezing temperatures, gusts of wind and the daunting task of fighting fire with ice at the site of the largest civilian nuclear disaster in history without further damaging the confinement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

He drapes the fresh shirt on the single chair rather than risk damaging it on a nail hammered in the wall.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison