Recent Examples on the WebAlong the way, people have been a kind of collateral damage.—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 June 2024 The burial is a ghastly image that starkly illustrates the collateral damage that occurs when powerful people fight.—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024 To varying degrees, each character has been undone by this crisis; all of them are collateral damage at the mercy of something larger and more insidious just out of view.—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024 But even the smaller bombs have caused collateral damage.—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 8 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for collateral damage
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