collateral damage

damage to things that are incidental to the intended target
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collateral damage

Summary

collateral damage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (233 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • collateral damage received the un-word of the year[2].
  • collateral damage's GND ID is recorded as 4627739-0[3].
  • collateral damage's subclass of is recorded as damage[4].
  • collateral damage's subclass of is recorded as unintended consequences[5].
  • collateral damage's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0108hs[6].
  • collateral damage's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0272420[7].
  • collateral damage's described by source is recorded as Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire[8].
  • collateral damage's different from is recorded as friendly fire[9].
  • collateral damage's Quora topic ID is recorded as Collateral-Damage-2[10].
  • collateral damage's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[11].
  • collateral damage's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07376463-n[12].
  • collateral damage's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2993632694[13].
  • collateral damage's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as dany-collateral[14].
  • collateral damage's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 28462[15].

Body

Recognition

collateral damage received the un-word of the year[2].

Works and Contributions

Things named for collateral damage include Catlateral Damage[16], a video game[17].

Why It Matters

collateral damage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (233 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for it include Catlateral Damage[16], a video game[17].

FAQs

What awards did collateral damage receive?

Honors received include un-word of the year[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . unwortdesjahres.net. Retrieved . unwortdesjahres.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). collateral damage. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/collateral-damage-q45939
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_collateral-damage-q45939_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{collateral damage}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/collateral-damage-q45939}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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