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How to use the word damage in a Sentence?

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An explosion or spillage from the tanker would not only result in an environmental disaster but also inflict significant damage on economic activities.

Ahmed Nagi

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

You can create fake accounts and pay $8 [for a blue check] … so if you are a well-funded bad actor, you can do more damage now than you could before, and if you are a reliable source and you’re not well-funded, your information will not be as visible as before.

Filippo Menczer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every single law allows an exclusion for a doctor to use their reasonable medical judgment to determine when to intervene in a medical emergency, which is usually defined as a threat to the life of the mother or permanent irreversible damage to an organ or an organ system. either one should have been offered and could have been offered to Amanda.

Ingrid Skop

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will certainly will be damage up along the coastal areas where the crossing occurred, but largely the populated areas did escape the brunt of the eye as it crossed the coast.

Peter Sutton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The integrity of our institution was damaged in that moment. That damage continues to accumulate, and for that there must be accountability.

Arizona House Democrats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will continue to do my best to collect information on the damage and search for human lives.

Yasukazu Hamada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are quite a number of marine organisms that have not yet been identified and are only present at the Verde Island Passage … and that’s something that we should protect. And hopefully, we do everything that we can to prevent the oil from causing damage in that area.

Irene Rodriguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have come to the realization in recent weeks that a globally active, systemically important bank cannot simply be wound up according to the ‘too big to fail’ plan, legally, this would be possible. In practice, however, the economic damage would be considerable.

Karin Keller-Sutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ICJ advisory opinion will come at a the right time to help us define what loss and damage means [and] how it will work.

Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In terms of Powell’s legacy, the damage has already been done.

John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As much as folks feel like it’s been an unrelenting winter, we actually have gotten some at least weeklong breaks and, in some cases, multi-weeklong breaks in between these sequences, had we had this winter and everything that happened back-to-back without any breaks during the storm cycles at all, the level of flooding and the level of damage in California would be dramatically higher.

Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nowhere have workers’ voices been adequately considered, and we know that as workers we are stronger together than alone, the damage to the intangibles is so significant.

Cameron Rout

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve also identified 318 buildings… that could collapse without any earthquake damage.

Ozlem Tut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified, but the federal crackdowns and guidelines have created collateral damage: patients left high and dry.

Antonio Ciaccia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The size or the strength of the storm was much higher than the last time … the impact in terms of damage and the impact on people’s lives has been more substantial.

Guy Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As this severe weather continues to impact more residents across northern Nevada I again urge all Nevadans to stay safe, travel cautiously, and to follow all local guidance. State and federal partners will continue to monitor local damage and will work quickly to assess needed repairs across northern Nevada.

Joe Lombardo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their spines extend upwards, constant pressure on their backbones from tourists can result in permanent physical damage – which can be seen in Pai Lin.

Tom Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In terms of U.S. interests, the damage was done with respect to the initial leaks, i’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker.

President Obama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This issue has been incredibly important to Meta for a very, very long time because the damage done is quite severe in the context of teens or adults, it can do damage to their reputation and familial relationships, and puts them in a very vulnerable position. It’s important that we find tools like this to help them regain control of what can be a very difficult and devastating situation.

Antigone Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As nice as it feels to have temperatures in the 70s and 80s this time of year, the fact that it’s not ‘normal’ can have a profound impact on the ecosystem, even a typical spring freeze can damage commercial and back-yard fruit crops that have been pushed into blooming by late-winter warmth.

Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russian attacks have an impact that exists long after the physical damage to a building; lack of access to necessary care and essential medicines destabilizes the population at large, i think that is precisely why the health care is often targeted.

De Vos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those areas that are already vulnerable following last week’s weather are expected to see more rain, strong wind, heavy swells and coastal inundation which will exacerbate the situation, if the cyclone continues on its current path towards the north of Aotearoa New Zealand, we can expect this to be an extreme weather event with widespread damage.

Lisa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re expecting 100 to 300 mm [of rainfall] for many parts of the North Island’s north and eastern sides, with even greater totals if Gabrielle stalls or slows down, this rain will cause more slips/landslides, road closures, flight cancellations and possibly damage more homes as we saw in January.

Philip Duncan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s hard for a lot of people to accept it, now, I don’t accept CTE results. I don’t accept the brain damage that we’re finding. I don’t accept the fact that so many of these players can’t be diagnosed with CTE until it’s too late.

Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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