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as in damaged
to cause bodily damage to
though she wasn't harmed by the flying glass, she slipped and fell on a piece and cut her hand
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as in injured
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting
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Recent Examples of harmed
Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2024
Thankfully, no animals or people were harmed in the incident.
—EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
No officers were harmed in the shootout, the statement said.
—Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Again, other executives talked him out of being too aggressive, arguing the company’s existing pay TV distribution relationships would be harmed if NBCUniversal made that content available outside the cable bundle, according to the people.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
New Jersey, along with 21 other states, is claiming the opposite — that DACA recipients are contributing to their states and that they would be directly harmed if the program goes away.
—Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
Downtown, a crane collapsed onto the offices of the Tampa Bay Times and a high-rise condominium, although officials said nobody was harmed in either incident.
—Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
In his order Wednesday, Hall said Georgia failed to prove it was significantly harmed by Biden’s new plan.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
None of the children and adults inside the American Child Care Center, located at the northeast corner of 51st Avenue and Butler Drive, were harmed during the collision, according to Mendez.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
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Reports suggest that a few beach-goers were harmed by the jellyfish, including three people who were stung by Lion’s Mane in Galway.
—Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2024
Thankfully, no animals or people were harmed in the incident.
—EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
No officers were harmed in the shootout, the statement said.
—Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Again, other executives talked him out of being too aggressive, arguing the company’s existing pay TV distribution relationships would be harmed if NBCUniversal made that content available outside the cable bundle, according to the people.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
New Jersey, along with 21 other states, is claiming the opposite — that DACA recipients are contributing to their states and that they would be directly harmed if the program goes away.
—Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
Downtown, a crane collapsed onto the offices of the Tampa Bay Times and a high-rise condominium, although officials said nobody was harmed in either incident.
—Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
In his order Wednesday, Hall said Georgia failed to prove it was significantly harmed by Biden’s new plan.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
None of the children and adults inside the American Child Care Center, located at the northeast corner of 51st Avenue and Butler Drive, were harmed during the collision, according to Mendez.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harmed
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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The Stanford defense was missing sixth-year linebacker and captain Tristan Sinclair and junior Collin Wright, its best player in coverage, who were both injured.Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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His clean image was marred by scandal in the late 1980s when Garvey divorced his wife, got two other women pregnant, then married a fourth woman, his current wife.Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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His victory was celebrated not only as a win for the democratic process in a region marred by a series of recent military coups, but also as the ushering-in of a new and younger political generation in Senegal, where the median age is just 19.Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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Matthews devotes one parenthetical sentence claiming rocket launches hurt coastal wildlife.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest.Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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De Menezes was on his way to repair a broken fire alarm when he was shot and killed in an underground carriage at Stockwell station.Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
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The ability to breach one algorithm may also indicate that similar algorithms could be compromised, snowballing this potential crisis across data security providers worldwide.Jason McNutt, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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His immune system had been compromised.Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Somebody with impaired vision, conducting a fingertip search, might gather as much as—or more than—a viewer with perfect sight who merely looks.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Children, older adults, and people with impaired immune systems are at higher risk for health problems from breathing in toxins from mold exposure.Sarah Hudgens, Health, 4 Oct. 2024
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Utah’s roster is inarguably weakened by replacing Callie Smith with Genie Erohkina (one of the worst performers last weekend in Virginia Beach), but the roster rules incentivize teams to dump a mid-season acquisition like Smith, so why not cash in at the trade deadline?Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The yen remained weakened after Ishiba downplayed the prospect of imminent interest rate hikes earlier this week.Ian Mount, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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Predictions for holiday spending are beginning to trickle out, but there are a lot of question marks in the air, including a massive port workers’ strike that began Tuesday and has crippled all shipping container cargo on the East Coast.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Saddam's Playbook All these sites were targeted by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and severely crippled the Iranian economy.Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Harmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harmed. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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