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detriment

[de-truh-muhnt] / ˈdɛ trə mənt /


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Others fear an algorithmic streaming bubble is to the detriment of genuine music, its discovery and creatives' livelihoods.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

There is no shortage of ideas to dredge from this truth, about how we use art to cope, sometimes to our own detriment.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Along the way the reader follows Graham as the academy’s intrigue threatens to consume him, to the detriment of his legal practice and his marriage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Bass had previously cited the uncertainty of the merger as a detriment to Hollywood workers’ livelihoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

Netflix’s newest reality competition series is based on ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,’ and among its detriments is using the AI-generated voice of the late Gene Wilder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

And what are the nutrition benefits — and, possible, detriments?

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

In an hourlong conversation, in a hotel somewhat more modest than Moscow’s Metropol, they discussed claustrophobia, facial hair and the benefits and detriments of working with a spouse.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

A founder of the Indian National Congress, he expressed the opinions of many middle-class Indians in 1871 when he wrote on the subject of the benefits and detriments of British rule of India.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In the former the employer is said to “cause” the slave to suffer these detriments, in the latter he is said to come by them.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns


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