incalculable damage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincalculableanddamage
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incalculable
adjective
uk/ɪnˈkæl.kjə.lə.bəl/us/ɪnˈkæl.kjə.lə.bəl/
extremely large and therefore unable to ...
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damage
noun
uk/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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These misfortunes were added to in 1944 and again in 1945 by the devastating cyclones which broke upon the island and inflictedincalculabledamage.
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They know that in the long term it could doincalculabledamage.
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Speculation resulting from such informal leaking of information would have doneincalculabledamage.
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In this instance, his thoughtlessness could doincalculabledamageto our other goals and objectives in the regions.
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If this short-sighted and wrongheaded policy is carried through,incalculabledamagewill be done to our country's reputation and interests.
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Anything in the method of selection which appears unjust doesincalculabledamageto a youngster.
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Although prosecutions are often not pursued or are unsuccessful,incalculabledamageis inflicted in the meantime on the interests of the companies under investigation.
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It consists of the independent control of a deterrent which is capable of inflictingincalculabledamageupon anenemy assailant.
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There would be millions of casualties; there would beincalculabledamage.
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It is often processed badly, however, and that causesincalculabledamageto those countries.
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I mean theincalculabledamagethat they have done and are doing to practically all of their own most vital interests.
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What they are doing to us by asking that the sulphur should be kept for their own use will doincalculabledamageto our industry.
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This was apart from theincalculabledamagewhich must have been done to individual businesses and, indeed, to the nation's economy.
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The letter went on to make apologies and to moot the prospect of compensation, butincalculabledamage, great unhappiness, hurt and trauma had already been caused.
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If these things are misunderstood or mishandled, or if, for instance, a child is held up to derision, this sort of thing leads toincalculabledamage.
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The move will causeincalculabledamageto the lives of farmers in the developing world as well as to the livelihoods of farmers in this country.
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If some of these grotesque proposals were adopted it would doincalculabledamageto the credibility of representative democracy and positively provoke public cynicism about the body politic in general.
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They have doneincalculabledamage.
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This would shut down the canal indefinitely, resulting inincalculabledamageto the world economy.
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Much of the commercially-unviable fish is thrown away, withincalculabledamagedone to the ecosystem.
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