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Collateral damage.
Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.
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"The Afghan people became collateral damage of this conflict".
"The collateral damage of that will be huge".
The collateral damage of childhood abuse is huge and uncounted.
"The women suffer the collateral damage of our interest".
But there are serious questions about the costs and collateral damage of such an expansion.
Some suggest this is just the collateral damage of deficit reduction.
But, he added, "Northern Ireland must not be allowed to become collateral damage of Brexit".
But I cannot forgive him the collateral damage of this government's hawkish education policy.
It is not the temporary brutality of globalisation, or the collateral damage of austerity.
The collateral damage of success on those terms would be vast.
The collateral damage of this crisis has been real people and real communities.
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