inflict
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The U.S. remains China’s biggest single trading partner and its economy is still the world’s largest, meaning that a sharp rupture with the U.S. could inflict deep pain.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Goïta also claimed armed and security forces had managed to inflict "heavy losses" on the rebels.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
The plaintiffs had not even established that shifting power generation toward technologies that inflict less damage on humans and the planet qualified as “harm” here.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
The broadening out of Operation Epic Fury into a regional conflict is starting to inflict serious economic pain on the Asian economies.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
Cupboards were dangerous to open because clothes and books and shoes would cascade down and some of his books were heavy enough to inflict real damage.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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