deprecate

“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

It is easy to deprecate the single phrase inscribed atop the entrance to our courthouse by conceptualizing it as a mere platitude.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

“If there are products that aren’t resonating with customers we deprecate those items and look for other opportunities,” Taddy said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Don't deprecate your scheme, my lord; I consider it sublime.

From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Victor Hugo

He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

On the one hand, he deprecates the continuities between the twentieth-century cults and the more improvisatory autocrats of our day.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017

And there is nothing which a young person so much deprecates as the curse of an aged person, and especially that of a revered father.”

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

“Blocking public posts makes no sense. It needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute,” Mr. Musk tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

There’s no official word from Google as to why it’s deprecated the feature, so we may never know for sure the reasoning behind Google abandoning it to its ever-increasing product graveyard.

From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021

For now, there is a lot of nonautomated, human effort involved in the process of pruning the internet encyclopedia from the Daily Mail and other deprecated sources.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2021

MD5 is strongly deprecated and this points to troubling software development security practices in Yahoo or its suppliers.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2016

The prevailing impression that any new invention could control the submarine in time to be effective was deprecated.

From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick

His own company SpaceX, he now says, despite previously deprecating the moon, will focus on developing a “self-growing city” there “in less than 10 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

It’s niche, yes, but the folks interested in that niche are passionate about it, despite the deprecating memes.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2024

As early as 1989, Gaines had conceived of a show that would juxtapose powerful contemporary work by Black Americans with deprecating excerpts by art critics, highlighting the profound mismeasure of these artists’ achievements.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

“It just occurred to me you might be interested,” he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment.

From "1984" by George Orwell