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The phrase "a dramatic dent in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant impact or reduction in something, often in a negative context.
Example: "The new regulations made a dramatic dent in the company's profits last quarter."
Alternatives: "a significant blow to" or "a substantial impact on".
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Costs like these put a dramatic dent in people's pocketbooks.
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"But doing something dramatic to make a dent in their cash pile would be [a break] with their history.
The reason: There is no easy way to put a big dent in next year's projected deficit of $1.267 trillion, short of a dramatic rise in economic growth that would send new tax dollars cascading into the treasury.
A DRAMATIC day in Sarajevo.
That marks a dramatic collapse in fortunes.
China offers a dramatic case in point.
You have a dramatic improvement in credit.
It was a dramatic story in itself.
Include a dramatic event in the narrative.
Forty billion makes hardly a dent in a trillion trillion.
Extreme conditions only make a dent in a diversified system".
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