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Six example sentences with detrimental, each labelled with its topic.
Long stretches of night shift work were detrimental to the residents' reaction times, so the hospital rewrote the rota.
Medicine
Road salt runoff proved detrimental to the stream, and the trout population fell every winter for a decade.
Environment
The rushed rebrand was detrimental to the shop, whose regulars stopped recognising the sign and drifted to a rival.
Business
Constant comparison proved detrimental to the students' confidence, and the school stopped posting rankings.
Psychology
Skipping rest days is detrimental to progress, since muscle rebuilds between sessions rather than during them.
Fitness
Sudden tariffs were detrimental to the region's exporters, who lost their biggest market in a single quarter.
Economics
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Found in 5 published word lists
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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