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Example sentences for: detriment

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Schools are focusing their curricula on exams to the detriment of long-term learning.
This idea that autistic brains are developing at warp speed, to their detriment, fits intriguingly well with what is known about treatment of autism—the earlier and more intense behavioral therapy an autistic child receives, the better the outcome will be.
Having an obviously high opinion of yourself threatens and alarms both peers and superiors, often to your ultimate detriment.
Larry is right to point out that the architecture of the Harvard system is more centralized (to its detriment) than the Chicago system.
A sidebar castigates the Clinton administration for championing the interests of drug companies to the detriment of public health by trying to prevent the sale of generic substitutes in developing nations.