Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a collateral manner.
- In collateral relation; not in a direct line; not lineally.
- With or by means of collaterals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Side by side; by the side.
- adverb In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
- adverb In collateral relation; not lineally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In
collateral relation; notlineally . - adverb
side by side ; by the side - adverb In an
indirect orsubordinate manner;indirectly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whatever the good intentions of this or that ordinary individual serving in the occupation forces -- such as the military doctors who saved what was left of Razia's life -- the underlying logic of domination will have its way, churning relentlessly through the bodies of innocent people caught up -- deliberately or "collaterally" -- in the brutal power of foreign forces which should not be in their land.
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Whatever the good intentions of this or that ordinary individual serving in the occupation forces -- such as the military doctors who saved what was left of Razia's life -- the underlying logic of domination will have its way, churning relentlessly through the bodies of innocent people caught up -- deliberately or "collaterally" -- in the brutal power of foreign forces which should not be in their land.
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Laterally, collaterally, meaning is leached from the phonemes that unleash it.
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That our leaders lack empathy for the "collaterally" damaged is as shameful as a compassion-reduced electorate.
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Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.
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Is America prepared to accept an Afghan civilian casualty toll of about 1 million -- killed volitionally or collaterally as we did in Iraq.?
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Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.
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Curing it could collaterally bring with it a radical change of direction that would work toward resolution on any number of anti-Semitism-centric challenges.
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Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.
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Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.
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