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Six example sentences with inimical, each labelled with its topic.
The dry hospital air proved inimical to healing, so nurses added humidifiers to every recovery room overnight.
Medicine
Road salt runoff is inimical to the frogs breeding in the roadside ponds, wiping out whole spring cohorts.
Environment
Constant travel between three cities each week proved inimical to the rookie's shooting form and his sleep.
Basketball
Long approval chains are inimical to a young company, which lives or dies by how fast it can change course.
Startups
Unpredictable inflation is inimical to long-term lending, since nobody will fix a rate for twenty years in a fog.
Economics
Plato judged most poetry inimical to reason, feeding the passions that the well-ordered soul was supposed to govern.
Philosophy
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