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The personalization of sports viewing could undermine the connections that fans shared by watching the same iconic image from the same angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

One more remaining factor may undermine the dollar in the future, Sachdeva predicts: it’s the fundamental cheapness of Asian currencies.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

He offered a note of optimism and suggested the president’s goal is to enhance, rather than undermine, the alliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

At William Blyth, however, Nichols believes modernisation could undermine what makes their tiles valuable: their variation, texture and character.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

They not only fuzz up a writer’s prose but can undermine his intent.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Truly creative and inspiring art undermines that goal, because it provokes responses like empathy and critical thinking in audiences — which gets in the way of authoritarian domination.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

But using the technology this way both undermines consumer trust in an increasingly important sales channel, according to critics, and competes with users who demonstrate products the old-fashioned way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Turk said the lack of transparency and clarity surrounding the circumstances of the deaths undermines accountability.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

"Fly-tipping damages our environment, costs taxpayers millions, and undermines communities," said Heidi Pawlin, programme manager for Fly-tipping Action Wales.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

A man from New Jersey wrote that fake news undermines “the prestige of the radio as a dispenser of news.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

The protests follow a series of controversies that have undermined trust in India's testing system, including the leak of a medical entrance examination paper that forced more than two million candidates to retake the test.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Public trust was "significantly damaged" by failures to provide PPE and other equipment and the hard work of many officials was undermined, added Baroness Hallett.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

My generation has suffered from two vicious influences that have undermined our collective elasticity and perseverance, and with that, our willingness to take risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

“This ruling preserves a vital tool to protect the stability of the California insurance market. Blocking cost recovery would have undermined the state’s last-resort coverage option,” she said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Unfortunately, these two objectives were directly at odds with each other, and Galileo’s success at the second undermined his rather half-hearted efforts at the first.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The whole reason thousands of men fought a war over the most beautiful woman alive is that there’s only one of them — unless undermining that excuse is the point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

But Greenpeace said the project will only "create temporary jobs while undermining existing livelihoods in fishing, tourism and small-scale local economies".

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Introducing uncertainty into North America's economic framework risks undermining that strategy.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

However, it said earlier this month that applying the DMA to cloud services risked undermining competitiveness, deterring investment, and weighing on innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

But the thought keeps worming back in, undermining every attempt to rout it out.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman