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vitiate

[vish-ee-eyt] / ˈvɪʃ iˌeɪt /




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Giving that up, Professor Bale said, would vitiate the ideological rationale of her government and potentially turn her into a lame-duck leader until the next election, which she will have to call by early 2025.

From New York Times Sep. 30, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2021

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC Sep. 25, 2019

If it’s something you need to do, why would their response vitiate your determination?

From Washington Post May 10, 2019

Unhappily it came to an end through a-33- prosecution under the Truck Act, that blot upon the Statute Book, designed, it would appear, even deliberately to vitiate man's benevolent control of his fellow man.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

If that evidence shows that someone else inflicted the wounds—if it casts doubt on whether Gutierrez caused, intended, or anticipated Harrison’s death—it vitiates the findings that made him eligible for the death penalty.

From Slate Jun. 26, 2025

Mr. Daley said the warning that plays at the beginning of these inmate calls constitutes “a voluntary waiver that vitiates privilege” for anyone on the call.

From New York Times May 22, 2018

Publishing in Cogent doesn’t merely muddy the waters on their point against gender studies, it completely vitiates it.

From Salon May 22, 2017

This stands in stark contrast to the unrelenting practice of broken windows policing, which places enormous pressures on police officers to cast wide nets of summonses and arrests and vitiates their professional capacities.

From The Guardian Jun. 29, 2015

If a reader discover one mistake it vitiates the whole book.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

“In an awfully vitiated age, where ordinary courage has become rare, I thank her for standing by the truth,” the statement said.

From New York Times May 21, 2021

“In such a vitiated atmosphere, it’s impossible for me to see Dil Bechara in isolation and gauge it on its own merits,” she wrote in the Film Companion, an online movie magazine.

From Washington Times Jul. 25, 2020

The prosecution's case was that the woman's consent was vitiated by Lawrance's deception.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2020

“ICMR’s intentions may be good but the processes have been vitiated and the risk is it can derail the vaccine,” he says.

From Science Magazine Jul. 6, 2020

It is apparent, therefore, that the tongue presents evidences of vitiated secretions, of local catarrh of the buccal mucous membranes, and of the high grade of gastric irritation so constantly attendant on this disease.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

PBS SoCal does not value its own programs by vitiating the viewer’s experience.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2022

But a large Jeff Koons piece is droning nearby, vitiating thought with its generic monotone of irony.

From Washington Post Sep. 13, 2015

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2013

Pakistan summoned Afghanistan's chargé d'affaires on Thursday to protest "an unprovoked firing incident" that is "vitiating the friendly relations and creating avoidable tension between the two brotherly countries," the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2013

Carbonic acid, the vitiating product of combustion, does not, however, ordinarily deteriorate the atmosphere of the room, but, mingling with the smoke, escapes through the stove-pipe or chimney.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira




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