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Six example sentences with deleterious, each labelled with its topic.
Road salt proved deleterious to the roadside maples, whose leaves browned each June long before autumn arrived.
Environment
Long stretches of broken sleep are deleterious to the immune system, as the ward's own night nurses discovered.
Medicine
Constant comparison with strangers online has a deleterious effect on how teenagers judge their own ordinary days.
Psychology
The tariff had a deleterious effect on the very farmers it was meant to help, since their fertilizer doubled in price.
Economics
Running every day without rest proved deleterious, and her times slowed for six weeks before she took a break.
Fitness
Cement mortar is deleterious to old brick, trapping water in the wall until the faces flake away.
Architecture
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