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

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 James Champlin Fernald

Yes: they all speak well of him, and they say that the Governor, Vaudreuil, treats him shamefully, or at least traduces him shamefully behind his back to the Government in France.

From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

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 Eighth Earl of Elgin James

A wife and mother cannot thus absolve her own soul; she simply disgraces and traduces her holiest work.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

And yet a friend of Sir Olly Robbins, the defenestrated lead civil servant in the Foreign Office, said the soon to be former mandarin was being unfairly traduced.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

If anything, we are now the ones being traduced by you.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2019

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

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015

Valdez, who strenuously enforced the treaty obligations relative to the trade, without regard to private interest, was traduced by the Spaniards, and by their management fell into disfavor with his government at home.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou

They spend the book traducing the relationship’s effect on U.S. foreign policy, electoral politics and the news media, among other areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

On the contrary, for the purposes of animating the stage she hasn't done enough traducing: this often sounds like cut-out book pages walking around the stage.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010

Does your definition of loyal, which is to serve the King according to the laws, allow you the licence of traducing the executive power, with which you own he is invested?

From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton