as in to damage
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
a thoughtless indiscretion that endamaged a reputation that took a lifetime to build
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The primary severe weather threats for this area are damaging wind gusts and large hail, with an isolated tornado risk mainly for northern Virginia up to New Hampshire.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
3 May 2025 -
Tyler Adams, the distillery's general manager, says Buffalo Trace has weathered storms before, including a campus-wide flood in 1978 and tornado speed winds damaging multiple buildings in 2006.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
3 May 2025
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Sadly, the price of an alternative school was too high, and she was forced to send her children to public schools marred by gang violence and bullying.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, says that many of her images are marred by satellites crossing her plane of view.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
28 Apr. 2025
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Two people were injured and a dozen apartments left uninhabitable following an early morning fire Wednesday at a three-story apartment building, the second residential fire in Elgin in less than a week.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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According to the Associated Press, no one was injured during the incident, citing court documents.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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Further compromising cities' structural integrity is the damage from extreme weather, amplified by climate change, which wasn't included in the study but nonetheless poses a threat.—
Li Cohen
May 8,
CBS News,
8 May 2025
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Your Gmail account is under attack from those who would compromise it, lock you out, and then use the resources within to stage further attacks against you and your contacts.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Eventually this chokes air from the soil and restricts water movement, hurting the overall health of your lawn.—
Kate Puhala,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2025
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The standoff threatens to dramatically disrupt trade between the world's two largest economies and hurt both economies.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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“Endamage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endamage. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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