The phrase
"potential casualty" means someone or something that might get harmed, injured, or affected negatively in a certain situation or event.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«potential»
«casualty»
Sentences with «potential casualty»
- One frequently overlooked potential casualty of accelerating climate change may be our tradition of democracy (corrupted as it already is). (heatisonline.org)
- In addition to the obvious damage that would result from the proposed $ 5.8 billion cut at NIH, the $ 2 billion cut in applied energy R&D, the $ 900 million cut in DOE's Office of Science, the abolition of ARPA - E, and the research cuts at NOAA and EPA, a less immediately obvious potential casualty would be U.S. scientific cooperation with a wide variety of other countries on a wide variety of topics. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- As even more employees download work - related information and data onto their personal phones, these three factors are conspiring to make company data a potential casualty of biometric technology's legal protection problem, Bond says. (inc.com)
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