inflicted
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The billionaire has since repeated that he is keeping the option of striking Tehran on the table, but prefers to stress the economic damage inflicted on the country through economic sanctions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The U.S. last year inflicted severe damage on the so-called Fordow site, also buried in a mountain, by dropping its most powerful bombs through ventilation shafts that went straight down to uranium enrichment facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The measure of his serious intent to change will be measured in how he spends it—in seeking a return to public power, or in reckoning with the harm he inflicted.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
The last three defeats have been inflicted by England – New Zealand here, then Pakistan in Rawalpindi in 2022, and Pakistan again in Multan in 2024.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
After the destruction of Tenochtitlan, the Spanish court and intellectual elite were convulsed with argument for a century about whether the conversions were worth the suffering inflicted.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
