detriment
Example Sentences
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In favor of ending quarterly reporting: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman says the costs of quarterly reporting discourages companies from going public, to the detriment of everyday investors.
From Barron's
Meanwhile, Apple’s delayed rollout of its Apple Intelligence features “has not been a detriment to iPhone sales,” Counterpoint said.
From MarketWatch
“We will most likely see a renegotiation to the detriment of North American competitiveness,” he says.
From Barron's
He added: "Scotland's DRS delivers for the environment, society and industry and to delay it now would be to the detriment of all those things."
From BBC
Some critics say the current Somali operations are too dependent on Danab, to the detriment of the larger, and evidently harder, job of building up the regular Somali army.
From New York Times
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