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Collateral damage.
Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.
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The initiative could result in "major collateral damage" to NASA's science program, he said, and damage the balance the agency has traditionally maintained between human space flight and fundamental science.
So there is also a very real risk of inadequate scrutiny of complex proposals with opaque implications resulting in major collateral damage to citizens' privacy and security.
In such cases, surgical revision is often not possible or only possible with major collateral damage due to the presence of intra-abdominal adhesions.
Consensus is that we've hit a tipping point and the retail industry is finally seeing some major collateral damage from Amazon's monster growth — and mainstream/non-tech news has started giving this a lot of coverage.
The vibrant city of Metropolis is suffering major collateral damage from a fierce battle.
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"We have suffered a major financial hit and continued collateral damage from public criticism will compound the problem, not resolve it".
The law, however, gives the administration significant room to maneuver to avoid a major disruption in the global oil market and any collateral damage to close American allies.
"Collateral damage was not observed, but it is a possibility," Major Leighton said.
In other words, one of the major centers of learning and knowledge at that time was, in fact, collateral damage in a power struggle.
The minimal collateral damage associated with fs-laser pulses is one of the major advantages of fs-LIBS for spectroscopic characterization of thermal barrier coatings.
The collateral damage to the abdominal wall for intraperitoneal access accounts for a major part of the operative trauma in abdominal surgery.
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