traduce

Artificial-intelligence researchers rush to create it, even though computer-as-brain metaphors traduce the complexity of human biology, at least for now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

“The government will in no way traduce or criticize the work of the committee who are doing exactly what Parliament has asked them to do.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

And did she somehow betray or traduce them, hold them in contempt or unjustifiably exploit them?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

Art for art’s sake recognized that if you subordinate art to an idea like “the greater good,” you traduce it.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022

“Mrs. Watson,” he said, “I’d like to in- traduce you to your long-lost son from Siam, His Royal Highness, Yul Watson!”

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2017

Holkar, for instance, unless common fame traduces him, has rather an itching for what Mr. Laing calls 'hard rupees.'

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William

Nor can he who traduces my bretheren—my kindred—my home—all that I most venerate and revere—honor me so much as by traducing me.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

Or because Hoan Ton-That, the ingenious co-founder of Clearview, had once, like Thiel, been traduced by Gawker?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2020

More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

It is the sort of double-cross and double blow that no clean athlete deserves, traduced by the cheats, smeared by the actions of those who have already duped them once.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2015

This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015

The government of Lord Baltimore was traduced in these representations, and every disorder attributed to the ascendancy of the Papists.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

It’s an approach now so mainstream that it’s become an orthodoxy of its own; it’s difficult to think of a writer today, of any genre, who doesn’t congratulate herself for traducing artificial binaries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020

Just as Mabey wonders if we can extract wellbeing from an environment we are traducing, so Jones considers the 21st-century challenge posed by ecological grief.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020

Yale has been seduced by a $150 million “bells and whistles” student center into traducing the best of what it and Holloway have stood for.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2019

So, wonderfully, traducing Microsoft across the Internet helps Sony, and vice versa.

From Forbes ● Nov. 5, 2013

To lie outright, deliberately and with malice aforethought, in traducing a fellow-man, is slander in its direct form; but such conditions are not required to constitute a real fault of calumny.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)