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plural of damage
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as in penalty
a sum of money to be paid as a punishment ordered by the court to pay $1000 in damages

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verb

present tense third-person singular of damage
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Recent Examples of damages
Noun
The case is now expected to move toward a trial where the court will decide how much Grimmway could pay in damages and what additional relief farmworkers may receive. Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025 The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025 According to The Denver Post, the jury found the defendants named in the family's suit — Glenwood Caverns Holdings, the park’s parent company, and Soaring Eagle, which designed the ride — liable for $82 million in non-economic damages and $123 million in punitive damage to the Estifanos family. David Chiu, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025 The British House of Lords ruled that the factory owner was liable to the neighboring property for money damages. Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025 Along with structural changes to Uber’s business model, the plaintiff is asking for all damages the law allows but did not name a specific dollar amount. Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Sep. 2025 The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and brings claims for breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets and fraudulent concealment, among several others. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025 Irreparable harm generally refers to a kind of harm that monetary damages can’t later remedy. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Sep. 2025 The case, part of an ongoing lawfare effort in which local governments have been recruited to serve as plaintiffs, sought to hold the companies liable for damages the island suffered as a result of Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico in 2017. David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
These instructions help turn off the harmful protein that damages brain cells. Doc Louallen, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025 Every departure damages a team’s ability to deliver value to customers. Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025 Surprise damages Van and Lucia Nguyen met Tang and Panday through mutual friends around 2019 and bonded over their affinity for camping. Lizzie Kane, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025 Researchers believe that this tension slightly damages the muscle tissue, resulting in a growth response. Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Sep. 2025 Chronic financial stress raises cortisol levels, which, over time, damages the immune system, increases risk for hypertension and heart disease and worsens mental health. Dr. Melissa Weathersby, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In particular, a significant amount of rubble is visible in the streets of Jabalya and Sheikh Radwan, apparently caused by direct fire that damages the sides of buildings without appearing on satellite imagery. Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025 This interaction damages skin cells and can trigger irritation, redness, stinging or burning. Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025 If the power outage is specific to your home, say a lightning strike damages your electrical system, things change. Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damages
Noun
  • Trump could have faced up to four years in prison, but a judge issued an unconditional discharge, leaving his conviction in place but sparing him any penalty or fine.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, Piastri wasn’t in the race to serve the penalty.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Drawing from international human rights frameworks, theological ethics rooted in her Presbyterian tradition, and four historical case studies involving harm against AAPI communities, Kao examines both the moral and political dimensions of reparations.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Automobility directly or indirectly causes one in 34 deaths annually, injures more than 100 million people a year, and has killed as many people as the two World Wars combined.
    Henrietta Moore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If a dog that has not been officially declared dangerous severely injures or kills a person when unprovoked, authorities may confiscate the dog, and the dog’s owner is liable for the incident.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Set against Mumbai’s relentless pulse, their delicate connection faces tests as personal histories, desires, and wounds resurface.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • No policy wounds Tibetan dignity more profoundly than attempts to co-opt its spiritual and institutional heart.
    Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then there are additional fines for selling alcohol illegally to underage individuals, with increasing amounts, based on the number of offenses.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Virginia can expect a fine for the field storming.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to Fox’s proxy filing, released Thursday, Murdoch took home a compensation package valued at $33 million in the company’s fiscal 2025, which ended June 30.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There's an element of that that really comes down to partnering with our system partners to, again, incorporate those value elements into the physician compensation model so that those physicians can change their behaviors.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Deadly holiday weekend mars broad crime drop The back-and-forth followed a Labor Day weekend of deadly violence in Chicago worse than in the previous two years, with seven people shot to death, according to preliminary Chicago Police Department reports.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Valuing a project at cost of production rather than value in an arm’s length sale—common in all economic statistics—especially mars Chinese data.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps surprisingly, Rose says that losing in chess hurts a little more than failing to win on the basketball court used to.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Actually, her back hurts really bad.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Damages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damages. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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