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It also would all but destroy Detroit’s immediate chances, demoralize the clubhouse and likely alienate a fan base desperate to see the Tigers win their first title since 1984.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

He then answered his own question: “It’s as if they only wanted to scare, hurt, and demoralize us.”

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

A heavy loss of seats could demoralize the party faithful and panic Tory lawmakers, who fear that they will be tossed out of Parliament in the general election.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

Others, however, have said that such messaging may have no impact on behavior, or worse, that it may depress and demoralize the public into inaction.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In a world that often demoralizes rural Americans, and Appalachians in particular, it is imperative that we understand the value of our experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

None of this really demoralizes Im, who knows as well as anybody that his park is a gigantic money sink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

“The use of the word ‘inmate’ further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” he said in Ms. Hochul’s press release.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

How can someone who loves you be okay with leaving things around for you to clean up, knowing it demoralizes you?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021

Reforms not entirely needed, and but half carried out, leave the recipients in that transitory state which weakens and demoralizes without effecting any permanent and real benefit.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It’s possible those demoralized job seekers are pushing the participation rate lower, said Martin of Oxford Economics.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

But when he and his coaching staff took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2024, following its disastrous performance in the Copa América, he said he inherited a demoralized, dispirited group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Now, after that latest detention, Garcia Venegas sounds demoralized.

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day, confronted by ageless celebrity after ageless celebrity, feeling demoralized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

They would stop work and go around completely demoralized.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Even when I know I’m delivering at a high level, being asked for constant updates on my progress can feel demoralizing.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

The demoralizing loss sent the Lakers into a three-game tail spin one month before the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

The findings about the bat bridges were demoralizing for Altringham, who during his career appeared at several public inquiries into the impact of road-building projects on bats.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Golf became repetitive, and demoralizing, because I couldn’t score as low as I used to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

He’d go to Princeton and compete and try to win the Olympic berth, but when Bobby Moch engineered that cold, calculating, come-out-of-nowhere victory, Ebright quickly saw the demoralizing effect it had on his own crew.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown