detrimental
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Data show that many patients lose weight initially but gain it back over time, thus making their temporary weight loss futile and potentially detrimental.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
However, Bailey said that although the impact on financial services was "not good", it was "nowhere near as detrimental as many people predicted at the time".
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
Katz wrote in an email that the extra expense of around $2,000 per device were “cost prohibitive and detrimental to public safety.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
"Our historical experience has taught us that delegating vital matters... to international judicial bodies has been detrimental to our sovereignty and our territorial integrity," he said.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Nor did she know that the cure for tuberculosis in 1903 was precisely the one most detrimental to the patients.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing detrimental
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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