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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.
Coverage of political issues too often gels around easy, conflict-based poles, to the detriment of anyone's understanding.
Few, though, can match Santorum in the pursuit of political symbolism to the detriment of substance.
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.
Once on the bench, these judicial politicians (emboldened by their anything-goes common-law attitudes) will set about encoding the popular will into law, to the detriment of unpopular minorities.